ABSTRACT

According to OECD, higher education is expected to provide competences for critical thinking, discipline knowledge, problem solving, teamwork, communication, professional skills, ethics and values, creativity and learning to learn. Knowledge work in society is work that focuses on advancing knowledge objects by a community's collective efforts and resources. This chapter investigates students' knowledge work competence development within specific courses in the domains of media engineering and life sciences by utilising the Collaborative Knowledge Practices (CKP) questionnaire. It explores both the students' and the teachers' perceptions of the students' competence development during the courses. The CKP questionnaire provides a tool to grasp domain-general competences related to collaboration and knowledge work. Continued research is needed to identify the types of educational practices and elements in course and curriculum design that teach knowledge work and object-bound collaboration competences, and to explicate the potentials of university-industry collaboration in education.