Intervention programs for improving learning competences in higher education

Abstract

This article tries to justify the importance of the self-regulation in the students learning process, especially in the present conditions and in higher education. In addition, some of most relevant programs of self-regulation of academic learning in the sphere of higher education were reviewed. The procedure consisted in an extensive search ofdatabases, mainly Psyclit, EBSCO Online, EBSCOhost and Science @direct and the Web of Knowledge (WOK), and Scopus, using the descriptors self-regulated learning, higher education, LearningStrategies , Intervention Programs, learning process, ICTs. Although there are quite a few of them, we reviewed only the more relevant interventions and those that show empirical data about their results. Despite the encouraging results obtained in most of the intervention programs revised, the improvement of self-regulation competences is deeply influenced by variables that must be considered in a future, particularly the increasing presence of