The Future of Education

The current Educational Model of the Tecnologico de Monterrey frames teaching-learning strategies that ensure the development of competencies at the end of the student's professional training process. These competencies are key elements to perform and adapt head on work and social scenarios currently unforeseen [1,2]. On this line, the present work integrates results of an experience at a specific level, which promoted the development of transversal competencies according to the expected attributes to crown the graduation profile in engineering. With emphasis on the knowledge-skills guiding axis, an activity was designed collegially, requiring to addres content, solve a real problem and integrate a performance evaluation system to manage one's own learning [3]. The deployment involved active learning strategy linked to a collaborative work system [4]. The essential elements of the methodology were the definition of roles, the setting of common objectives, teamwork and its processing, as well as recognizing and generating a positive interdependence with a high level of responsibility and commitment on the part of the student [5]. The obtained results were: approximate a global process developing activities typical of professional practice; confirm the degree of progress in skills such as problem solving, evaluation of components and own reasoning; and evaluate and provide feedback on the process to project it in equivalent scenarios.