1. Common features for the subject area report Business and Management LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

2. Summary Commonly used approaches to Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Business and Management Methodology of identifying competences Table of educational activities for competences Description of the process of competence development (illustrating that subject specific are similar to generic) Commentary on each competence, summarizing the responses LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

3. Subject area Business and Management LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

4. Commonly used approaches to Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Business and Management (LEFIS) Business and Management as subject is directed to the formation of professionals involved in the economic, planning and human resource management aspects of a business organization –The usual continuing education teaching in ICT and Law (from LEFIS perspective) is… LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

5. Methodology of identifying competences Subject: Business and Management First step.- –Commonly used approaches to Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Continuing Education by LEFIS members Second step.- –Answers to the questionnaire, graduate and postgraduate: general competences –Answers to the questionnaire, employers: general competences Third Step.- –Answers to the questionnaire, teachers of postgraduate courses, General and specific competences: Business and Management Fourth Step.- –Proposal LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

6. Answers to the questionnaire, graduate and postgraduate: ranking of general competences Professional importance 1.Capacity to learn 2.Elementary computing skills 3.Will to succeed 4.Information management skills (ability to retrieve and analyze information from different sources) 5.Capacity to adapt to new situations 6.Concern for quality 7.Problem solving 8.Oral and written communication in your native language 9.Ability to work autonomously University level 1.Basic general knowledge in the field of study 2.Concern for quality 3.Ability to work autonomously 4.Teamwork 5.Will to succeed 6.Oral and written communication in your native language 7.Capacity to adapt to new situations 8.Capacity to learn 9.Elementary computing skills LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

7. Answers to the questionnaire, employers: ranking of general competences University level 1.Appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism 2.Will to succeed 3.Grounding in basic knowledge of the profession in practice 4.Oral and written communication in your native language 5.Information management skills (ability to retrieve and analyze information from different sources) 6.Elementary computing skills 7.Capacity to learn 8.Ethical commitment 9.Concern for quality Professional importance 1.Will to succeed 2.Planning and time management 3.Concern for quality 4.Capacity for analysis and synthesis 5.Capacity for applying knowledge in practice 6.Elementary computing skills 7.Capacity to learn 8.Capacity to adapt to new situations 9.Problem solving LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

8. First initial conclusion Number of answers: –Graduate and postgraduate 36 –Employers 4 Deep differences between professional needs and universitary teaching offert

9. Business and Management: Postgraduate Teachers Competences comparison: ranking Key subject specific competences 1.ICT and the Changing Legal Professions in The Information Society 2.Information Technology Law 3.Understanding of Professional ICT practice and business structure 4.Interpretation of legal texts in context 5.Application of legal texts in context Key generic competences 1.Decision-making 2.Interpersonal skills 3.Oral and written communication in your native language 4.Critical and self-critical abilities 5.Ethical commitment LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

10. Second initial conclusion Number of answers: –Business and management: Postgraduate Teachers 3 Some approach in the specific and general competences, relative to professional change of the legal activities

11. Table of educational activities for competences Answers to the questionnaire, teachers of postgraduate courses, Topics to teach: Business and Management LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

12. Business and Management: Topics to teach Teachers of postgraduate studies 1.Telecommunications and juridical activities: interpretation and application, access to documentation, elaboration of theories of Law, teaching and learning. 2.Telecommunications in the courts and electronic justice 3.Intellectual and industrial property as regards the characteristics of computer programs and information systems. Establishing the legal basis for Regulatory proposals 4.The governance of electronic commerce through codes of practice. Basis for multi-cultural codes of practice for electronic commerce 5.Telecommunications, Rule of Law and electronic democracy LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

13. Business and Management and Law and Policy: common topics to teach Teachers of postgraduate studies Intellectual and industrial property as regards the characteristics of computer programs and information systems. Establishing the legal basis for Regulatory proposals Telecommunications and juridical activities: interpretation and application, access to documentation, elaboration of theories of Law, teaching and learning. Telecommunications in the courts and electronic justice The governance of electronic commerce through codes of practice. Basis for multi-cultural codes of practice for electronic commerce LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

14. Third initial conclusion Number of answers: –Business and Management: Postgraduate Teachers 3 The topics to teach: – Four commons to Law and Policy Topics to teach –Related with legal regulations

15. Description of the process of competence development (illustrating that subject specific are similar to generic) Business and Management: Postgraduate teachers LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

16. Business and Management: Postgraduate teachers Competences comparison [a reminder] Key subject specific competences 1.ICT and the Changing Legal Professions in The Information Society 2.Information Technology Law 3.Understanding of Professional ICT practice and business structure 4.Interpretation of legal texts in context 5.Application of legal texts in context Key generic competences 1.Decision-making 2.Interpersonal skills 3.Oral and written communication in your native language 4.Critical and self-critical abilities 5.Ethical commitment LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

17. Commentary on each competence, summarizing the responses Business and Management: –Business and Management as subject is directed to the formation of professionals involved in the economic, planning and human resource management aspects of a business organization LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006

18. Business and Management subject competences LEFIS continuing education Proposal ICT and the Changing Legal Professions in The Information Society Information Technology Law Understanding of Professional ICT practice and business structure Interpretation of legal texts in context Application of legal texts in context LEFIS Continuing education Malta, 8th April 2006