A Flipped Learning Approach to Develop Soft Skills in Multidisciplinary Higher Education

Germán Moltó, Jose F. Monserrat, Inmaculada Fita, Ana Fita, and Eva M. Mestre. A Flipped Learning Approach to Develop Soft Skills in Multidisciplinary Higher Education. In INNODOCT 2017, pp. 295–305, 2017.

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Abstract

Soft skills play an important role in higher education degrees since they have to be developed and assessed along the different academic years. The advent of online instruction and the ability of our students to use multimedia material for self-instruction have paved the way for flipped learning to rise. This work focuses on the development of Soft Skills by means of Flipped Learning in different higher education degrees. This involves diverse subjects in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Linguistics, Agricultural Science and Physics, providing use cases on which flipped learning techniques can be applied to develop Soft Skills such as: Comprehension and Integration, Specific Instrumentation or Long-life Learning. The paper centers the discussion in the Soft Skills that need to be evaluated by the aforementioned subjects addressing their requirements, the Flipped Learning methodology used, the technological material underpinning the experiences, together with the results obtained. Results hint that students have more difficulties developing soft skills without personal interactions, and consequently new online approaches applied to class groups are needed to address this challenge.

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Molto2017fla,
   abstract = {Soft skills play an important role in higher education degrees since they have to be developed and assessed along the different academic years. The advent of online instruction and the ability of our students to use multimedia material for self-instruction have paved the way for flipped learning to rise. This work focuses on the development of Soft Skills by means of Flipped Learning in different higher education degrees. This involves diverse subjects in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Linguistics, Agricultural Science and Physics, providing use cases on which flipped learning techniques can be applied to develop Soft Skills such as: Comprehension and Integration, Specific Instrumentation or Long-life Learning. The paper centers the discussion in the Soft Skills that need to be evaluated by the aforementioned subjects addressing their requirements, the Flipped Learning methodology used, the technological material underpinning the experiences, together with the results obtained. Results hint that students have more difficulties developing soft skills without personal interactions, and consequently new online approaches applied to class groups are needed to address this challenge.},
   author = {Germán Moltó and Jose F. Monserrat and Inmaculada Fita and Ana Fita and Eva M. Mestre},
   booktitle = {INNODOCT 2017},
   keywords = {Flipped Learning,Soft Skills,assessment,methodology},
   pages = {295-305},
   title = {A Flipped Learning Approach to Develop Soft Skills in Multidisciplinary Higher Education},
   year = {2017}
}