Un contexto interdisciplinario TIC para el desarrollo de un programa de Inteligencia Emocional en Educación Superior

Abstract

Since the introduction of the Bologna process, the goal of a complete education is not only to teach technical skills but also other competences, such as team work, effective communication skills, project and time management and the ability to marshal our emotions in pursuit of that end. In effect, Emotional Intelligence skills demanded in the modern workforce includes passion for working toward achieving group goals and leadership skills, such as communication and negotiation. In this way, the Emotional Intelligence Program has been taught into the University of Alicante’s Primary School Teaching Degree in order to train university students to perform efficiently in differentcontexts; to adapt to social, cultural, scientific, technological and educational changes and to improve their emotional skills.In truth, Emotional intelligence involves two important competencies to make career successful: (1) the ability to recognise their own feelings and other people’s feelings and emotions, as well; (2)the ability to use that information to resolve conflicts, problems, and improve interactions with other people.The possibility of working in groups in order to solve applied cases, the ability to learn autonomously, or the use of e-learning platform, turn this experience into something completely new, faraway from traditional lectures, normally used in most universities. In fact, the evaluations received from students have been very positive and the evidences suggested that Emotional Intelligence keyskills are relevant in order to encourage their students to broaden their horizons and experience.In addition, acquiring an in-depth understanding of Emotional Intelligence is one important goal for future teachers. University cannot be the margins of the process of communication, interaction,finding information, etc, to take place in today’s society, marked by technology and globalization.Therefore, teaching objectives must be beyond the scope merely academic, other than to work also equip our students tools needed for function in society around them.In this way, the program’s lessons with the mediation of dynamic ICT context have shown to facilitate students’ construction of Emotional Intelligence knowledge and understanding. It also helps university students to develop based strategies to implement technology-based instruction.So, the results showed that teaching Emotional Intelligence skills in a cross-disciplinary ICT context is a way to improve the quality of teaching, students’ engagement in Higher Education. In thisway, we are trying to maintain and enhance the quality of Higher Education at a high level and to act as a major driving force for the development of quality assurance in order to develop and share goodpractice on emotional intelligence training.In conclusion, this project is designed in order to explain how teaching Emotional Intelligence Competences in a cross-disciplinary ICT context presented essential training our students in attitudes andvalues with which to analyze and evaluate situations, find information, make emotional decisions, etc.Finally, the implications of these results for the incorporation emotional intelligence competences into the university curriculum are discussed and, in the same way, to outline initial evaluation ofimplementation of pilot study of inter-professional learning within the virtual learning environment detail the next phase of implementation within postgraduate studies.