Supporting Collaboration in Professional Soft-Skill Training Courses

Olivier Pfeiffer (), Sabina Jeschke, Lars Knipping and Nicole Natho
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Olivier Pfeiffer: MuLF, TU Berlin
Sabina Jeschke: IMA/ZLW & IfU - RWTH Aachen University
Lars Knipping: MuLF, Berlin University of Technology
Nicole Natho: MuLF, Berlin University of Technology

A chapter in Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2009/2010, 2011, pp 301-306 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract More and more employers qualify their employees in soft skills or make soft-skill knowledge a decision criterion when assigning new jobs. Soft-skills courses are typically highly interactive as soft skills are no factual knowledge and cannot be acquired by simple drilling. The course instructors, who very often are external experts, have to face the challenge to adapt to new media and course styles since new technologies not only shape everyday working life of the course attendees, but also demand for new soft skills due to changed communication practices. This paper proposes a community-oriented approach for professional soft-skill courses using a room-based collaboration platform.

Keywords: University Education; Collaborative Learning; Collaborative and Communication Software; Educational Software; Curriculum Design and Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16208-4_26

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