Fostering soft and hard skills for innovation among informatics engineering students

Q2 Engineering
Manuel Torres, Nuno H. Flores, R. Torres
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Abstract

Informatics engineers are currently in the spotlight of innovation. It is, therefore, relevant to analyse and reflect on how higher education can, and should, prepare future engineers to innovate as expected in this ever-changing world. This paper aims to further research and foster scholarly debate regarding the requirements and implications of teaching innovation. For that purpose, we examine an exploratory case study on interdisciplinary cooperation between two higher education courses, designed to promote students’ active learning of innovation through the progressive development of their soft and hard skills. Both courses engaged in an emancipatory pedagogical approach, mostly grounded in project-based work, active learning, and formative assessment. To obtain feedback on this interdisciplinary cooperation, questionnaires were devised to ascertain the students’ perceptions about this pedagogical approach. Individual responses were collected from both courses and data was analysed through simple statistical procedures. Articulating a priori soft skills development with a posteriori hard skills learning process is perceived by students as beneficial in gradually, yet successfully, understanding the subject of innovation. Also, there were even some external success indicators which showed the recognition of successful innovation skills development in informatics engineering students. Thus, according to students’ perceptions of their experience with an emancipatory pedagogy that connected soft with hard skills development, we conclude that such approach encouraged students to create new knowledge and allowed them to develop the necessary skills to innovate.
信息工程专业学生创新软技能和硬技能的培养
信息学工程师目前处于创新的聚光灯下。因此,分析和反思高等教育如何能够、也应该为未来的工程师在这个不断变化的世界中进行预期的创新做好准备,是有意义的。本文旨在进一步研究和促进关于教学创新的要求和含义的学术辩论。为此,我们对两门高等教育课程之间的跨学科合作进行了探索性案例研究,旨在通过逐步发展学生的软技能和硬技能来促进学生积极学习创新。这两门课程都采用了解放的教学方法,主要以项目工作、积极学习和形成性评估为基础。为了获得对这种跨学科合作的反馈,设计了问卷调查,以确定学生对这种教学方法的看法。从两个课程中收集了个人回答,并通过简单的统计程序对数据进行了分析。将先验的软技能发展与后验的硬技能学习过程结合起来,学生们认为这有利于逐渐但成功地理解创新主题。此外,甚至还有一些外部成功指标显示了对信息学工程学生成功创新技能发展的认可。因此,根据学生对他们的经验的看法,即将软技能与硬技能发展联系起来的解放教育法,我们得出结论,这种方法鼓励学生创造新知识,并使他们能够发展必要的创新技能。
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Journal of Innovation Management
Journal of Innovation Management Engineering-Engineering (miscellaneous)
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