Practice-oriented learning - a platform for the formation of global skills

Abstract

Glocal people are needed in all fields of life-sustaining activity as business, industry, education, health, environment, technologies. To develop glocal people is the key aim the world higher education system is intending to achieve. What kind of people are glocal people? People, who think globally, act locally. People who act as masters of logical, critical, lateral, creative and systems thinking and who can think globally and consequently solve local problems. Value and demand for glocal people are increasing during the crisis (economic, political, etc.). Why do we need glocal people? How are glocal people developed or how should they be educated?