Development of soft skills and the use of the Learning Management System in the preparation of practical projects in a telematics engineering introductory course
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https://doi.org/10.29197/cpu.v15i29.299Keywords:
Project based learning, soft skills, internet of things, learning management systemAbstract
Projects are widely used in the practice of engineering. Most projects required multidisciplinary teams and constant communication between actors for their success. The education system should use pedagogical methods that are align to the practice of the field, in our case, of engineering. This study implemented the Project Base Learning to establish a link between the hard skills and soft skilled developed in an introductory course in the bachelor program of Information and Telecommunication Engineering. The projects focused on the concept of Internet of Things to develop on students the soft skills of communication (written and oral) and teamwork. The methodology used in the course along with a Learning Management System allowed a significant improvement in the technical reports written by the students and on their presentation skills of the projects developed in the course. We were able to align de hard skills developed with the needed soft skills mention above. This implementation resulted in a high-level satisfaction from the students on the projects they developed, overpassing their initial expectations.
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