The Aurora Competence Framework (ACF) offers diverse tools to help academic teachers to articulate learning outcomes, integrate them into their regular classes and assess the actual development of the identified competences.
The Aurora Competence Framework (ACF) is a toolbox designed to support Aurora universities in transforming their institution towards Aurorarization. This includes in particular, our ability to:
- Equip students with the skills and mindset to help address key societal challenges through social entrepreneurship and innovation.
- Allow students and faculty from different Aurora universities to meet and learn from each other across language and national boundaries.
- Encourage cross-disciplinary learning that applies both disciplinary subject matters knowledge and fundamental transversal competences.
Educators can use the tools in the ACF to plan learning environments, courses or learning tasks and measure student status quo and development. It helps teachers reflect on their pedagogical practices and outcomes. It provides a common language in relation to academic and personal competencies needed for social entrepreneurship and innovation.
Students benefit from the tools in the ACF through increased awareness about their own ability to address societal challenges through their professional life. They also allow students to reflect on an increasingly complex life and work environment.
University administrators will find the tools in the ACF useful to manage student interaction within an international and multicultural context. The tools provide measures that allow strategic diagnosis and longitudinal student development and growth scales. They also allow the planning of curriculum development and faculty training. Furthermore, they provide a possibility to measure effectiveness.
The ACF consists of three tools:
