This article presents the research findings factors influencing on students’ learning motivation at School of Engineering and Technology, Tra Vinh University. The results show that there are six factors that influence the student’s motivation, in which, the factors of students support, quality of lectures, students’ life skills and training programs have negative correlation whereas the two other factors, facilities and students’ material life have positive correlation. Among the above factors, students support and students’ life skills are two novel factors affecting students’ motivation that not found in previous studies. The results are based on the survey report of 438 students in the mentioned School using SPSS software, version 20, and using Cronbach’s Alpha, Exploratory Factor Analysis and linear regression analysis.
In the integration and development period, training students, which probably meets the urgent requirements of the companies, businesses in professional and soft skills, is becoming a challenge for all universities as well as for the teachers. To accomplish these requirements, CDIO-based training program not only requires students in criteria about knowledge, skills, and behaviors but also be an expert in the technical design process: conceive, design, implement and operate the systems in the entrepreneurial, social and environmental background. Therefore, how can students be skilled in both soft skills and specialist knowledge, but still meet the CDIO requirements? Based on these things, the authors propose solution to integrate soft skills into teaching specialized knowledge through project-basedbusiness method which helps students satisfy specialized knowledge and soft skills directly related to future careers, and meet CDIO requirements.
Nowadays, along with the knowledge and professional skills, soft skills are also considered as a compulsory requirement for students before graduating. Besides the soft skills subjects teaching, the integration of soft skills in professional teaching will help students to acquire the necessary soft skills which appropriate to the fields being trained. In this article, we introduce some soft skills training methods that are applied in teaching Information Systems Analysis and Design subject in CDIO-based training programs (Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate) for Information Technology students. The training of soft skills in professional teaching will help students quickly adapt to the requirements of future careers.
Currently, at Tra Vinh University as well as other universities in Vietnam, lecturers mostly focus on professional teaching without paying much attention to training soft skills for students such as teamworking, problem solving, interpersonal communication skills, ... In addition, students are only interested in learning how to become an engineer, an accountant or a doctor without training soft skills or just studying in compulsory form, and lack of depth investment. Lacking soft skills that lead the graduates facing a lot of trouble in their professional life. In the higher education system, graduates can have a good practice in career, can design a machine, can have good programming skill, can develop a model of growth economy but they can hardlycommunicate, work in groups or solve problems effectively. For solving this problem, the Department of Information Technology has developed a curriculum based on the CDIO approach, but there are still many issues to be improved. In this paper, the authors introduce solutions to integrate soft skills in professional teaching, specifically in teaching specialized subjects at the Department of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Tra Vinh University.
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