Abstract
The need of faster insertion of graduates into labor market and enhancing professional and soft skills of graduates required by employees, conduct to new learning method necessity. Starting from stated foreseen of Europe 2020 strategy, creativity, entrepreneurship and intensive use of ICT should be enhanced soon to all academic levels. Also, the entrepreneurs require that graduates to have strong organizational knowledge, to quickly integrate into company’ business processes. The traditional assessment of students implies an individual form, team assessment being avoided to be sure of each individual contribution. Also, the future Industry 4.0 implementations will ask for interdisciplinary skills regarding ICT use and specific digital workflows. The proposed enterprise environment replication uses ERP as backbone of IT infrastructure and Office 365 as business workflow tool management. The experience in using ERP as laboratory IT infrastructure for multiple subjects of academic curriculum of the same academic program showed that graduates could focus on internal business process and documents flow rather than learning how to use the software. The Office 365 is used to experience internal workflow of companies, implemented on existent tenants. To enhance the entrepreneurship and innovation, the learning method is completed with simulated enterprise specific activities.
Highlights
Recent studies [1] highlight the importance of graduates’ employability readiness and soft skill awareness
The learning environment supposes the following actors: - Creativity and innovation must be the primary key of learning, assessed through disruptive ways of problem-solving and technological and business processes approach, - Students, acting as entrepreneurs or employees, - Vocational counsellors, to establish the psychological profile and initial skills pulls, - Tutor of each enterprise that oversees the overall activity, - Guidance counsellor, for student final evaluation based on entire student academic activity
The software infrastructure, even it seems to be very complicated at the first sight, replicate the real enterprise environment
Summary
Recent studies [1] highlight the importance of graduates’ employability readiness and soft skill awareness. - Creativity and innovation must be the primary key of learning, assessed through disruptive ways of problem-solving and technological and business processes approach, - Entrepreneurship, highly requested by employers, should be enforced, through various teaching activities, seeking for entrepreneurial attitude, knowledge of entrepreneurship and entrepreneur skills enhancement. The competency term it seen in the literature “as dispositions to self-organization, comprising different psycho-social components, existing in a context-overlapping manner, and realizing themselves context-” [10] or as a compound of talents, skills and capabilities of HE graduates that contribute to multi-factor productivity gains [11]. Regarding transversal competencies are more generic, available to major fields of study and more related to group competencies (e.g. communication, teamwork, creative thinking etc.)
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