Can active learning techniques simultaneously develop students' hard and soft skills? Evidence from an international relations class.

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Purpose

In recent decades, educators have pushed to implementing active learning techniques that can advance students' competences. Universities are increasingly required to develop knowledge measured in terms of grades (hard skills) and inter-personal, social, and communication abilities (soft skills). Nevertheless, within the field of active learning, educators often focus on how these techniques can improve students' hard skills and their satisfaction. Few have analysed whether and how these techniques might improve students' soft skills. Moreover, among these few studies, the majority has analysed hard and soft skills separately, measuring whether different active learning techniques may or may not improve them. Virtually no one has studied whether students' hard and soft skill

SUBMITTER: Betti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9041752 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature