Active Learning for Soft Skills Development
This course provides a practical learning path on how to foster the development of soft and digital skills while teaching specific subjects. Soft skills, as defined by Haselberg (2012), are “a dynamic combination of cognitive and meta-cognitive skills, interpersonal, intellectual and practical skills that help people to adapt and behave positively”, and are a vital component of any course: not only are they “most wanted” competences indicated by the corporate sector, but they are also essential life skills for all. This MOOC is mainly for higher education teachers and trainers who recognise the importance of potentiating such skills in students and who want to improve their effective support for students to help them achieve this aim. It is also for those who have already actively engaged students in their lessons, but still want to re-think the proposed activity and enhance the results of this interaction working on soft and digital soft skills even further. Through this MOOC you will discover how an active learning method, i.e. any instructional method that engages students in the learning process, can effectively be designed and implemented in a curricular course to support students’ in their soft skill development.
This MOOC is one of the outputs of the Erasmus+ eLene4life project (www.elene4life.eu), whose partners are:
Fondation UNIT – AUNEGe – Digital university for economics and business studies (France);
Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Italy);
Politecnico di Milano – METID Learning Innovation (Italy);
European University College Association (Belgium);
Warsaw University of Technology (Poland);
Universität Bremen (Germany);
Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (Italy);
University of Dundee (United Kingdom).
The eLene4Life project No. 2018-1-FR01-KA203-047829 has been funded by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union.
| Provided By | eLene4Life  |
| Type of provider | European project |
| Provided at | https://www.pok.polimi.it/ |
| Learning opportunity type | MOOC |
| Language | en |
| Home page | https://www.pok.polimi.it/courses?search_query=SSD101 |
| End date | 2021-06-06 |
| Duration | 2 |
| Workload in hours | 20 |
| Admission procedure | Higher Education enrolment |
| Price details | free of charge |
| Assessments | To obtain the certificate, you should complete the whole MOOC and the Weekly quizzes at the end of each week, but we strongly encourage you to take part in the peer assessment activities and discussions that you find most useful and relevant for your own professional development. These activities guide you in: focusing or reflecting on specific inputs individually; working collaboratively with the others through external tools, like Padlet and Answer Garden; sharing and discussing experiences, challenges, doubts with the aim to help and supporting own’s professional development; designing the experimentation of new methods to be implemented in the class through peer assessment. The final grade for the course is based on your results from your responses to the weekly quizzes (at the end of each week); peer assessment (week 6); and your contribution to the self-assessed activities, such as, for example, discussions in the forum or contributions on other digital tools. The weighting of these activities to your final score quizzes (70%); peer assessment (20%); and self-assessed activities (10%). Scoring for the Weekly quiz equals 1 point per question. Remember, the system will record the result of your final attempt, not the best of your attempts. Scoring for the peer assessment is equal to the average of the points assigned to your work by two peers. The course is considered successfully completed if the participant reaches 60% of the total score. The course's total score will be calculated by averaging the scores of the quizzes for each individual week. After completing the course, if you have surpassed the threshold score of 60% then you can download and print a certificate of accomplishment. You can check your points earned at any time on the Progress page. |
| Type of credential | Certificate of participation |
| ISCEDF Code | 018 - Interdisciplinary programmes involving broad field 01 |
| Education subject | Education science |
| Learning settings | non formal learning |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome – recognise and describe Recognise and describe key elements of teaching practice design in the frame of active learning methodology |
| Learning outcome type | knowledge |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/a117f32c-662b-4dd9-b739-1230dd04cb60 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Apply principles of constructive alignment to your curriculum starting with an effective formulation of ILO for soft skills |
| Learning outcome type | knowledge skill |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/e3145bd7-7f35-44ec-a5dc-4417c5c9ab9a http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/7ee872de-db39-4ae3-8e19-75d1a2cdf697 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Identify the key elements in defining an assessment strategy for ILO achievement when working on soft skills, elaborating the best strategies and preventing critical issues when applying active learning methods in your class |
| Learning outcome type | knowledge |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/31b67516-af16-4b97-8430-a8a8e0f84190 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Experiment with and develop new formats and pedagogical methods for instruction |
| Learning outcome type | knowledge skill |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/31b67516-af16-4b97-8430-a8a8e0f84190 http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/7ee872de-db39-4ae3-8e19-75d1a2cdf697 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Comprehensively support your students while they develop soft and digital soft skills |
| Learning outcome type | attitude |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Develop a positive attitude towards new and challenging demands developing a lively interest in novelty, an openness to experience, to exchange, actively explore and discover new areas |
| Learning outcome type | attitude |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/A1.8.0 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Use professional communities and networks to reflect on new pedagogic practices and methods and as a source for supporting one’s own professional development |
| Learning outcome type | skill |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/a8d24a95-47b3-4f88-92e7-06600bcd3612 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Share and exchange knowledge, resources and experiences with colleagues and peers |
| Learning outcome type | skill |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/574257ea-7b64-4100-b7b6-e27c233fe143 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Experiment with different strategies and methods to acquire knowledge, know-how, skills and competences |
| Learning outcome type | skill |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/a44c0ed6-68b1-457a-9c6d-ea8487bdfeb2 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Positively and effectively engage with others |
| Learning outcome type | skill attitude |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/97c1895a-a890-47da-abfc-79dc272add2e http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/A2.2.0 |
| Learning outcome | Active Learning for Soft Skills Development – learning outcome Communicate effectively in digital environments or with digital tools |
| Learning outcome type | skill |
| Related skill | http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/574257ea-7b64-4100-b7b6-e27c233fe143 |
