In this paper we offer a report on a university-level programming laboratory course that has been designed on top of a programming library. The course enforces soft skills, such as code inspection and team working, sharpens implementation skills and creates a bridge between introductory, language-specific instruction and senior-year full-blown programming projects that are usually large but not...

How to create competitive advantage through information technology (IT) in the turbulent environment is an important issue to most organizations. This study contributes to the information systems (IS) literatures by help gaining a greater understanding of whether and how IT skills that an IT department possesses influence the firm’s IT capabilities and IT-business alignment. This study proposes...

Over the past few years, our institution has been in the process of rethinking the structure of our College of Business curriculum. This is motivated by three major factors: Demands of industry for the inclusion of “soft skills” in our curriculum, the recent emphasis by AACSB on assessment of student learning, and dissatisfaction with the performance of the core MIS course. This paper describes...

The willingness of firms to provide general training to workers depends on the productivity gains from training and the likelihood that workers are retained. We evaluate the impacts of training in soft skills development on the workplace outcomes of female garment workers in Bengaluru, India. We implemented a lottery determining access to the program by randomizing lines and then workers within...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of perceptual – motor experience on motor development quotient of fine and gross motor skills in infants. fifteen 5-8-month-old healthy infants participated randomly in this study and were divided homogenously into two groups (experimental and control) according to their age. experimental group had 36 training sessions, each session an hou...

The undergraduate information systems curriculum seeks to prepare students for entry-level information technology positions. In this study, which is part of an ongoing research program aiming to better align the information systems curriculum with employer needs, the desired skills for entry-level systems analyst, business analyst, and project manager positions are identified based on interview...

The objective of the article was to analyze experience training and development soft skills among students higher education institutions. methodology used in study presents a comparative analysis hard skills, results student surveys on advantages hackathons skills. conclusions determine that institutions for formation introduce innovative methods means learning process. Hackathons meetups act a...