Model of Significant Experiences for the Development of Competencies

This mixed-methods approach examines the effect of a pedagogical model based on significant experience on the perceptions of capacity, motivation, and complexity among students of a Power Electronics course at a private university in the Caribbean region of Colombia. The 15 student-participants study's results revealed a 59.40% increase in capacity perception, 33.33% increase in motivation perception, and 25.56% decrease in complexity perception over a 16-week work period. These results demonstrate that the proposed model contributes to developing students' learning capabilities and, at the same time, makes course content more accessible. Therefore, this pedagogical approach promises to be effective in improving the quality of technical higher education.