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Technological University Dublin

Stream 5: Curriculum 2

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2015

Entrepreneurial university

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Experiments On Curricular Flexibility Performed In Higher Educational Institutions In The Network Of Technological Education To Brazil, Aline Alzevedo Larroyed, Atila Pires Dos Santos, Laurisnor Rochester Barros Dos Santos, Marcos Luis Grams, Sandra Isaelle Figueiredo Dos Santos Jan 2015

Experiments On Curricular Flexibility Performed In Higher Educational Institutions In The Network Of Technological Education To Brazil, Aline Alzevedo Larroyed, Atila Pires Dos Santos, Laurisnor Rochester Barros Dos Santos, Marcos Luis Grams, Sandra Isaelle Figueiredo Dos Santos

Stream 5: Curriculum 2

This article presents two similar experiments on curricular flexibility, each of them performed in different Higher Educational Institutions in the network of technological education in Brazil. Both experiments aimed to allow better training routes, specially directed to the idea of the entrepreneurial university, applicable to enrolled students. On the other hand, it intended to reach better management of the Institutes resources. We used in both experiments the same curricular format, where all the subjects that made up a particular course had a workload of 40 hours and lasted only a month. Each month, new students could be enrolled in courses …