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Eija Raatikainen; Jyrki Konkka; Katriina Rantala-Nenonen – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore Master of Social Services students' (MSS) thoughts of transversal skills in higher education studies and working life practice. Transversal skills are general skills that are transferable from field to field. For instance, transversal skills can promote individuals' employability in the labor market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Higher Education, Masters Programs
Nicole Beachum; Alexandra Krallman – Journal of Marketing Education, 2024
Social media is rapidly growing and evolving from the introduction of new platforms to platform-specific innovations. The dynamic nature of social media makes it difficult for even practitioners to keep up; therefore, the gap between academia and industry continues to grow. This gap presents significant challenges for marketing educators to keep…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Social Media, Skill Development, Education Work Relationship
Pouratashi, Mahtab – Journal of Education for Business, 2019
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine university activities to improve students' employability skills. The study conducted in two phases and Data were collected through interview and via a questionnaire. SPSS and Expert Choice statistical software were used for data analysis. According to the findings, the three main categories…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Skill Development
Hixson, Cory; Paretti, Marie C. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2018
Despite an increase in entrepreneurial activity at many universities, faculty perspectives on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mindsets are limited. To address this gap, we conducted a qualitative study exploring eighteen engineering faculty members' experiences with entrepreneurship, including why entrepreneurship is valuable to engineering…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko I. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
We randomly assign applicants to over-subscribed programs to study the effects of teaching hard and soft skills in vocational training and examine their impacts on skills acquisition and labor market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. We find that providing vocational training that either emphasizes social or technical skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education, Soft Skills
Holmes, Amy F.; Zhang, Shage; Harris, Benjamin – Accounting Education, 2019
Accounting instructors can embed effective writing into the curriculum, but how much instruction is enough to make a significant improvement in students' written products? In this quasi-experimental study, we compare the effect of three levels of minimal instructional intervention: all students in the study received a rubric outlining the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Accounting, Writing Skills, Intervention
Morselli, Daniele – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how educators can teach the key competence of a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship (SIE) as a cross-curricular subject in compulsory education. It draws both on the literature relating to entrepreneurial education and on competence-based education to set out five features of entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Entrepreneurship, Test Construction
Fombona, Javier; Fombona-Pascual, Alba; Vazquez-Cano, Esteban – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
This article shows the result of an international project from the European Commission, and it aimed to analyse 30 cases of effective European entities in the field of adult education, from Poland, Spain, Finland and Italy. The objective was to collect the best strategies that generate good employment and social inclusion results. The research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Integration, Employment Opportunities
Sansone, N.; Cesareni, D.; Ligorio, M. B.; Bortolotti, I.; Buglass, S. L. – Research Papers in Education, 2020
A blended university course whose design is inspired by the Trialogical Learning Approach is presented. The structure, activities, and content of the course are described in detail and followed by an explorative case-study conducted on data collected during the 2017-2018 edition of the course. The general aim was to understand the impact of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness
Learning and Work Institute, 2020
At the request of the Department for Education, L&W undertook a small-scale, time-limited stakeholder consultation to provide an up-to-date picture on ESOL learners' progression to Functional Skills English qualifications (FSE). Building on earlier research and stakeholder engagement, L&W conducted stakeholder and provider interviews, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Processes
Daly, Selena – Language Learning Journal, 2016
Employability is increasingly becoming a central aspect of higher education in the United Kingdom and it is becoming imperative that modern foreign languages teachers engage directly and sincerely with the employability agenda. This article proposes the use of feature films as a successful method for developing and promoting employability skills…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Films, Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications
Bogo, Marion; Lee, Barbara; McKee, Eileen; Ramjattan, Roxanne; Baird, Stephanie L. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
To strengthen students' preparation for engaging in field learning, an innovation was implemented to teach and assess foundation-year students' performance prior to entering field education. An Objective Structured Clinical Examination informed the final evaluation of students' performance in two companion courses on practice theory and skills.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Social Work
Watty, Kim; McKay, Jade – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2015
While research surrounding ePortfolios abounds, few studies make explicit the pedagogical underpinnings of their use. Some suggest that the decision to use new technologies, like ePortfolios, is often made in ignorance of pedagogic evidence. Developed over the course of a two-year national study on the implementation of ePortfolios, this paper…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Learning
Lightweis, Susan – Higher Education Studies, 2014
This study addresses the gap between accounting educators and the profession. Research indicates accounting graduates are underprepared for this challenging career. The issue stems from accounting educators who only lecture and accounting students who memorize the information provided in these lectures. Accounting students need opportunities to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Accounting, Semi Structured Interviews, Financial Audits
Becker, Samantha Adams; Brown, Malcolm; Dahlstrom, Eden; Davis, Annie; DePaul, Kristi; Diaz, Veronica; Pomerantz, Jeffrey – EDUCAUSE, 2018
What is on the five-year horizon for higher education institutions? Which trends and technology developments will drive educational change? What are the critical challenges and how can we strategize solutions? These questions regarding technology adoption and educational change steered the discussions of 71 experts to produce this report. Six key…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education