The Role of Competency Development in the Implementation of Portfolio-Based Education in Higher Education

The context of the study is the challenge of “skill gap”, which is growing fast in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution connected to the relationship between innovation and rethinking higher education. Higher education is under pressure to change all over the world. Globalization and internationalization, growing competition in the international higher education arena and the prioritizing of world class universities require the renewal of the concept of competency development from theoretical and strategic perspectives in HE. The purpose of the study is to introduce some results of portfolio-based education research, especially typology work, career and learning portfolios and the trends and processes of implementation of portfolio-based education in higher education. This study provides some important steps in the implementation of portfolio-based education in higher education, especially some pragmatic experience such as: formulating teams and learning communities, making and using competency standards in curriculum development and revision, changing innovation mindsets via implementation at individual and organizational levels.