Integrating Soft Skills Training into your Course through a Collaborative Activity
Nowadays, employers highly value soft skills, yet many students lack these fundamental abilities. Teaching soft skills involves fostering active student participation and facilitating communication of technical knowledge among peers. This approach presents challenges: (i) creating an engaging learning environment; (ii) ensuring students get timely feedback; (iii) finding an approach that is not too time-consuming for instructors to prepare.
Authors
- Simona Vasilache (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0027-7056)
- Márcia Cristina Moraes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9652-3011)
- Benoît Donnet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-3398)
- Géraldine Brieven (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1410-1470)
- Dieter Pawelczak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1742-2520)
Institutions
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- University of Liège (BE)
- Universität der Bundeswehr München (DE)
- Colorado State University (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-02-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701877
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Higher Education and Employability
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 8.93