Abstract:

The demands of a globalized world require universities to train students to be professional. The mission of Higher Education is to enhance students' competences, such as their emotional intelligence. For this reason, the main purpose of universities is to educate in terms of acquisition of skills, abilities, competences and values, with the ultimate aim of promoting employment and success in life. Many authors have found relationships between emotional competence and success at the workplace and in life; highlighting aspects such as cooperation, stress management, or improving social interaction. The Emotional Intelligence Massive Open On-Line Course focuses on individual differences in perception, processing, regulation, and utilization of emotional information and these differences have been shown to have an impact on academic and life outcomes. In this way, the results suggested a significant improvement in the ability of students to identify and manage emotions after the Emotional Intelligence Massive Open On-Line Course. In conclusion, emotional skills are part of the skills needed by people to successfully develop their professional work and personal life, and then they would be considered for training university students. So, the commitment to quality, continuous improvement and the pursuit of excellence drives research related to the development of skills that allow university students to face the challenges of their academic life and ensure their full training for future inclusion in the professional market. Finally, this research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (EDU2015-64562-R).

Keywords:

Emotional Competencies, Higher Education, training university students, Massive Open On-Line Course.