The META-COIN project is designed to help learners strengthen important meta-competences: skills that go beyond specific knowledge and support lifelong growth, collaboration, and adaptability. A key part of this process is self-assessment, which we advise you to do before starting your learning journey to support your choice of module and topic.
The self-assessment has two moments:
- Before learning: to help you reflect on your current strengths and areas for development, and to support your choice of the most relevant module and topics.
- After learning: to allow you to look back, notice what has changed, and see how your learning in the hybrid or e-learning course has helped you grow.
This cycle is powerful because it makes learning visible and motivates you to keep developing (Thomas et al., 2017; Taras, 2010). It also helps you take ownership of your learning journey—an important step in building self-regulated learning skills (Eva & Regehr, 2007).
META-COIN offers three modules—Self-Development, Working in Teams, and Dealing with Change—each with four specific topics. Below, we explore why self-assessment is especially important in each of these areas.