1. What are the contributions in "An academic portal for higher education information literacy: the e-coms initiative" ?
The e-COMS portal this paper is a portal for higher education in the European Higher Education Area ( EHEA ) with a special emphasis on knowledge management, information technologies and lifelong learning.
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2. What is the purpose of the Declaration of Graz?
The European Union needs a healthy, flourishing university environment in which the excellence of its universities can be furthered and the objective established in the Declaration of Graz [2] can be achieved: to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.
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3. What are the main aims of the e-COMS academic portal?
The general aims of the portal are to provide instruction in the following key competencies: cognitive, technological, documentary, research and communicative.
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4. What are the three types of competencies that can be defined?
From the DESECO and TUNING projects, three types of competencies can be defined [14]:- GENERIC or transversal competencies: communication, problem-solving, reasoning, leadership capacity, creativity, motivation, teamwork and in particular, learning ability.- BASIC competencies: reading, writing, calculation, information technology, foreign languages, technological culture etc.- SPECIFIC competencies; these are specific to the degree, specialization and employment profile the student is preparing for.
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