A Novel Teaching Learning Strategy for Teamwork based on Agreement Technologies
ABSTRACT The new framework introduced by the European Space for Higher Education entails the reformulation of teaching strategies, which must not only be based on the teaching process, but also on the learning process. Given the importance of teamwork in nowadays' engineering labour market, we propose a teaching learning strategy, which applies a competency based education approach and aims to reinforce the generic teamwork competence. Its foundations are drawn from the research on agreement technologies and multi agent systems, which are key research topics in the field of Artificial Intelligence. General Terms Agents, Internet and Distributed Computer Systems. Keywords Teaching learning strategy, teamwork competence, multi agent systems, cooperative learning, continuous assessment, learning management systems. 1. INTRODUCTION In the convergence process to the European Space for Higher Education, competency based education has become particularly relevant [1,2] This new approach allows the student to acquire specific competences related to a certain subject, and generic competences common to several subjects of the curriculum. From the latter group stands out the