Training with a Focus on Competencies

This written material develops the main theoretical and practical foundations of competency-based training. It addresses competency-based training models in Latin America where the main problems or lack of knowledge about the implementation of this type of educational model are identified, as well as a specific approach to the competency-based training model in Bolivia. Likewise, methodological processes of curriculum design are described considering a system from an approach in which teams are formed to implement processes of deconstruction and continuous reconstruction. Technological change and its influence on economic, political and social change. Transdisciplinarity in the understanding that an essential issue in how the whole and the parts are perceived at the same time, crossing and transcending the specialized disciplines in order to address the phenomena in all their complexity. With regard to assessment, a synthesis of its functions, types of assessment, assessment of learning, assessment of competencies and their instruments is presented. Finally, the competences inherent to the professional and work-related aspects.