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Which Are Harder? Soft Skills or Hard Skills?

verfasst von : Vreda Pieterse, Marko van Eekelen

Erschienen in: ICT Education

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper describes some technical and employability skills that are essential for our students to succeed in a career in software development. We conducted research aimed at understanding the students’ problems when required to develop these skills. We explain our techniques for observing skills gaps. Knowledge about these gaps enables us to intervene and suggest remedial action. We discuss how we create opportunities for our students to enhance their skills, based on our experience and the findings of our research.

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Metadaten
Titel
Which Are Harder? Soft Skills or Hard Skills?
verfasst von
Vreda Pieterse
Marko van Eekelen
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47680-3_15

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