NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Type
Reports - Descriptive15
Journal Articles13
Tests/Questionnaires2
Audience
Teachers1
Location
Asia1
Belgium1
China1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 15 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tarpey, Richard J. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2022
Project management (PM) work readiness requires preparation beyond the knowledge of concepts and best practices to develop and practice soft skills needed for successful project management. This article proposes a methodology that combines real-world practitioner tools, PM processes, and a Microsoft Excel-based PM Simulator to create a…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Reliability, Career Readiness, Computer Simulation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dwyer, Laura Paglis – Management Teaching Review, 2021
Developing skills in soliciting, receiving, and responding effectively to critical or negative performance feedback is at least as important as delivering feedback well. Organizational Behavior courses, however, focus almost exclusively on teaching students how to deliver feedback. The purpose of this scenario-based classroom exercise is to…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Feedback (Response), Listening Skills, Vignettes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Maennel, Kaie; Brilingaite, Agne; Bukauskas, Linas; Juozapavicius, Aušrius; Knox, Benjamin James; Lugo, Ricardo Gregorio; Maennel, Olaf; Majore, Ginta; Sütterlin, Stefan – SAGE Open, 2023
Hands-on and practical learning has been key to cybersecurity education and training success. Cyber Defense Exercises (CDX) are a common approach to training, testing, and verifying technical and soft skills. However, full-scale CDX implementation is also an expensive training event. In order to advance such exercises to the next level, CDX…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Science Education, Information Security, Computer Simulation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mangione, Giuseppina Rita Jose; Cannella, Giuseppina – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
Mountain, insular and internal areas represent 70 percent of the Italian land with a population that experiences many difficulties in daily living due to territorial constraints. Nevertheless, it is extremely important to guarantee equal opportunities and services to those who live on the mountains and small islands of the country. Distance…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Rural Schools, Distance Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Riley, Jen; Nicewicz, Kate – Marketing Education Review, 2022
Soft skills (active listening, attention to detail, avoiding technology-based distractions, etc.) are a growing need in today's workforce. Yet, finding the time, methods, and space within marketing classes can be a challenge. Faced with the task of teaching students not only how to function in their daily roles once in the workforce, the authors…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Teaching Methods, Creative Activities, Soft Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McCauley, Kelly Davis – Management Teaching Review, 2021
The Arena activity is an in-class, experiential learning exercise that requires student teams to navigate and assist a blindfolded team member through a maze-like setting. The goal of the activity is to seek and find all of the team's assigned objects. However, only the blindfolded team member can collect these objects in The Arena. This activity…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Communication Skills, Teaching Methods, Management Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rising, Zoe; Rising, Letty – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2022
Science is the study of the world around us, and a scientist's job is to ask questions about the world and then experiment to find the answers. There is not a more natural scientist than the Elementary child, whose reasoning mind is eager to ask questions, investigate, and discuss and compare findings with their peers. In this article, the authors…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Equal Education, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Price, Donna; Magy, Ronna – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
Soft skills, the interpersonal skills that demonstrate the ability to work with others, are essential for job attainment and advancement. However, as noted in current research and as echoed by employers, a significant soft skills gap exists in communication (oral and written), teamwork, and critical thinking that can prevent workers from advancing…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills, Teamwork
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hain, Joie S.; Ritz, Wendy – Marketing Education Review, 2021
Increased value is placed on students having real-world learning experiences. Application classes such as Digital Marketing provide the opportunity for students to achieve this experience. Employers place value with employees having both hard skills and soft skills. To support learning both hard and soft skills, the Enterprise Marketing Variation…
Descriptors: Marketing, Soft Skills, Problem Solving, Information Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hizi, Gil – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
Despite recent socioeconomic transformations, young adults in China construe local social norms as inhibiting their individualized selfhood. Based on a study of pedagogies of interpersonal "soft" skills, this article describes an apparatus of self-improvement where self- and social critique play a pivotal role. Through comparison with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Change, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Hagley, Eric – Research-publishing.net, 2020
As Virtual Exchanges (VEs) become more common in foreign language classrooms around the world, teachers are rightly asking 'what will my students be getting from this'? If their students are advanced, they can enter into in-depth interactions thus attaining broader and deeper intercultural knowledge as a minimum, from participation in VE. However,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Exchange Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Reagan, Timothy – Educational Foundations, 2022
While there are many difficulties faced by world language educators, both teachers and students of certain languages--languages commonly identified with countries and cultures deemed to be hostile to the United States--often find themselves in uniquely paradoxical situations. This article begins with a brief anecdotal description of the personal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Indo European Languages
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Vuylsteke, Jean-François – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Assessing the skills of the students who take part in a Virtual Exchange (VE) project is a challenging and complicated task, especially if it aims to engage both the students and VE co-organisers in the feedback and evaluation process. The objective of this chapter is to outline the pedagogical design of a business communication skills course and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, International Educational Exchange, Course Descriptions, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Andrade, Maureen Snow – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
This conceptual article focuses on teaching and learning strategies aimed at helping students in higher education develop cross-crossing skills such as communication, critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving, and working with diverse others. Within the framework of high impact practices and their elements, the article shares practical ideas…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Self Management, Assignments
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Renzulli, Joseph S. – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2020
In this article, I describe a series of Five Core Competencies that gifted education specialists should consider integrating into their teaching to respond to the many changes that are taking place in technology, work, and career preparation. Although the focus of this theory is on high- level jobs usually pursued by college graduates and advanced…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Job Skills, Theories