NDLI: Practicing and Evaluating Soft Skills in IT Capstone Projects

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Zheng, Guangzhi Zhang, Chi Li, Lei
Abstract	Information technology (IT) professionals have constantly stressed the importance of soft skills and used them as a key factor in hiring and career development. The soft skills are often difficult to be practiced and evaluated in IT curriculum, specifically in a subject or a skill focused course. We took on the challenge in an IT capstone course where students complete a term-long real-world team project. We redesigned the IT capstone course to systematically embed soft skill requirements in the team project, facilitate the training of soft skills, and evaluate students' soft skill competences. In this paper, we present our experiences and findings on curriculum improvement and students' soft skills development and assessment.
Starting Page	109
Ending Page	113
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450338356
DOI	10.1145/2808006.2808041
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-09-29
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Curriculum design Project Soft skills It capstone
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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Practicing and Evaluating Soft Skills in IT Capstone Projects