To succeed within the increasingly global context of their work environment, today’s IT professional needs to be equipped with both cutting-edge technical skills and a strong repertoire of “soft” skills. An important and often unrecognized soft skill is an appreciation of how various IT issues impact upon different peoples and what constitutes an acceptable professional practice in different so...

The principle objective of this research was to establish what computing curricula are required for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Input from academics, businessmen and the analyses of curricula from several African universities revealed a gap between existing curricula and what is considered to be ideal for this region. Required knowledge clusters were identified: Science and Technology; Soft ...

Despite the benefits of laparoscopic procedures for the patients, this technique comes with a number of environmental limitations for the surgeon, which therefore require distinctive psychomotor skills. VR training systems aim to improve these skills. For effective transference of skills from these training systems, it is important to mimic the surgical environment; including the soft tissue mo...

This study examined development of academic, language, and social skills among 4-year-olds in publicly supported prekindergarten (pre-K) programs in relation to 3 methods of measuring pre-K quality, which are as follows: (a) adherence to 9 standards of quality related to program infrastructure and design, (b) observations of the overall quality of classroom environments, and (c) observations of...

Natürlich braucht man fachliches Wissen, methodische Kompetenz und die Fähigkeit zu systematisch-analytischem Denken. Aber das ist unserer Meinung nach nur die halbe Wahrheit. Wir glauben, dass es diese weichen, nicht messbaren Faktoren sind, die den Ausschlag geben, wenn’s wirklich den Punkt treffen soll. Irgendwo im Bereich der Kommunikation, des menschlichen Miteinanders und der persönlichen...

The paper presents how the concept and technology of Open Badges are applied in the GRASS project for acknowledging, grading, awarding and recognizing learners' efforts and achievements in developing their soft skills (like self-regulation, leadership, collaboration, skilled communication, problem solving and innovation). Specifically, the paper describes a 4-phase model, called SAGRADA that wa...

organic agriculture, sometimes called biological or ecological agriculture, combines traditional conservation-minded farming methods with modern farming technologies .the purpose of this research was to identify management skills in development of organic agriculture in west azerbaijan province (iran) farms. the target population of this research included all agricultural experts who work in we...