Fostering "Student Voice" to Improve Teaching & Learning Methods in Higher Education

As part of the Employability & Competences (Emp&Co) project, introduced here by Monica Fedeli who is the national coordinator, an event on the topic of Transforming Teaching Methods and Assessment in Higher Education was held in April 2016, aimed at sharing observations on methods, but also university teaching techniques and practices. The protagonists of this event were undoubtedly the teachers, invited to reflect on their personal experiences. However, the true protagonists of the teaching and learning process were the students also invited by the Emp&Co project to make their opinions known about the teaching “experimented with” during their academic path. For this purpose, a group of students belonging to all the universities involved in the Emp&Co project (Universities of Padua, Florence, Siena and Roma Parthenope) was involved, about one month prior to the event, with the aim of further enriching the many perspectives on the teaching offered by the teachers involved through the voice of students.