LEARNING TO COLLABORATION: CAN INTEGRATED LEARNING IMPROVE STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS AND OUTCOMES?

The introduction of the so-called Student Outcomes (SOs) in curricula is a main objective for the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia (UPV). SOs are adaptive dimensions of students to the labour world and to lifelong learning. They are a complementary reference to academic marks, but they also grow to be academic outcomes in themselves. However, the integration of these SOs in the methodology and dynamic of traditional subjects and the obtaining of objective evidence of their achievement and results is a big challenge. UPV details in its Strategy Plan 2015-2020 the significance of these SOs, and integrates actions to promote initiatives to help meet the challenge, such as Educational Innovation and Improvement Projects (PIME). The present work explains an activity carried out within this framework. This contribution describes an experience carried out with the collaboration of lecturers of three different subjects taught in the third year of the degree of Tourism and double degree Tourism and Business Management: Catering Production Management (CPM), New Technologies Applied to Tourism (NTAT), and Business English (BE).