Assessment of transversal competences through social networks

In the European higher education area, the student is placed at the centre of the teaching/learning process, developing an active role, initiative and a critical thinking. On the other hand, ICT can offer new possibilities to develop necessary competences to reach student's objectives. In this sense, once competences are identified, we can see the use of ICT as a vehicle for providing opportunities for the acquisition and development of them. Moreover, the introduction of social networks has become a mass phenomenon of great importance, especially for young people who have changed the way of communicating, based on communication. For this reason, universities have started to use social networks supporting or complementing university teaching. The aim of this work is to take advantage of educational skills of social networks to test their educational possibilities. To do that, tutorials are expected to be used, so that each participating group will represent a group in the social networks and transversal competences will be also evaluated related to communication skills, team work, ICTs, etc. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.