Improving Soft Skills and Motivation with Gamification in Engineering Education

Takács, Judit Módné; Pogátsnik, Monika; Kersánszki, Tamás

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“…Virtual reality (VR) was highlighted as another potential application, where "Business simulation or marketing simulation where it creates a virtual world that would act as how it would be in practice" was a user story perceived by a respondent. Another participant thought as previous studies (Takács, et al, 2022;Dochie, 2017;Adhiatma, et al, 2019) also reflected "It is (gamification) everywhere. A lot of apps use it to motivate you to use it more.…”

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“…Not many respondents reflected on the definition of soft skills. However, the respondents reflected clearly on the usefulness of soft skills in educational settings and in connection to their future work and their interest in using technology support (in-line with Deep et al, 2019) and specifically gamification (in-line with Takács, et al, 2022;Dochie, 2017;Adhiatma, et al, 2019) for this kind of training in higher education. Figure 5 is the overview of the different themes that emerged from the texts that respondents used for defining and describing soft skills.…”

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“…Gamification is one of the advanced technologies that can be used to facilitate learning different skills, including soft skills (Adhiatma et al, 2019). Gamification, when it is embedded into game-based learning, supports and improves motivation and engagement in learning among students (Módné Takács et al, 2022) and develops different skills, including soft skills, as experimented in skill generator assessment game, for example (Dochie et al, 2017). In addition, Adhiatma, et al (2019) reflects on gamification as a new concept for effective and targeted training to improve individual soft skills and motivate and facilitate soft skills development.…”

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Soft Skills Demand and Supply Through the Lens of Higher Education Students

Aghaee,

Karunaratne

2023

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Soft skills are becoming equally crucial as hard skills in today's labour market. In contrast to hard skills which are teachable typically through formal education, soft skills are non-technical and interpersonal, allowing individuals to be able to find and succeed in their studies, jobs, and professional life. Despite the increasing emphasis on soft skills, many university students are either unaware of or neglect enhancing them. Soft skills deficiency among university students has become a significant concern for employers, educators, and policymakers, as it negatively affects students' academic performance and future employment prospects. The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ perceptions of the demand for soft skills and the possibility and availability of learning opportunities. The expected outcomes intend to provide insights about awareness of soft skills among students and pathways to reduce the soft skills gap through training provisions in higher education settings. Furthermore, it aims to find out how the young generation (mainly Generation Z) would perceive digitalisation and specifically gamification as a solution to facilitate soft skills training. This is a mixed method study, in which, an open survey was the data collection media. The survey was conducted during the spring semester of 2023 and analysed using visualisation and summarisation methods. Based on the outcome of 66 master’s and bachelor's students attending the digitalisation courses in two classes in Sweden, over 50% of the students perceived a lack of soft skills in their curricula. They were also positive toward the use of gamification as an effective digital strategy, recognising it as a powerful tool to facilitate training and developing soft skills as a part of formal learning in higher education. As a suggested approach, gamifying soft skills training potentially creates simulations that mimic real-world situations to allow students to practice and develop their soft skills in a safe and low-stakes training environment. This facilitates training soft skills for better communication and collaboration during their academic journey and after their graduation and to prepare students for successful careers.

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2023

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“…La gamificación se ha reconocido recientemente como una ciencia que selecciona, aplica, implementa e integra elementos de juego con el propósito de motivar e influir en comportamientos humanos focalizados en obtener un resultado productivo [6]; es decir, en la gamificación se reúnen técnicas para la realización de actividades productivas en diferentes contextos reales [6]- [8]. Desde este enfoque sistemático para orientar a un grupo de personas hacia un resultado productivo, la gamificación permite abordar algunos de estos retos identificados en la enseñanza de la ingeniería gracias al interés generalizado por jugar, competir y superar retos como motivaciones inherentes del ser humano [3], [9].…”

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Productividad gamificada: un aprendizaje lúdico de los sistemas de producción Flow Shop y Job Shop.

Ruiz Moreno,

Aguirre Cuervo,

Durango Marín

2024

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La enseñanza y aprendizaje de la Ingeniería Industrial requiere la constante reinvención de estrategias y métodos para el aprendizaje efectivo de los conceptos teóricos y prácticos, lo que incluye pensar en métodos lúdicos que permitan generar interés a través del espíritu competitivo e investigativo de los estudiantes. Este artículo, presenta una lúdica enfocada en construir el concepto de productividad con base en la comparación de dos de los sistemas productivos más conocidos en la industria como lo los sistemas Flow shop y Job shop. Con esta lúdica, se ha logrado demostrar que los jugadores no solo comprenden la definición de productividad, sino que aprenden sobre las ventajas y desventajas de cada tipo de sistema de producción de forma efectiva.

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“…In a survey conducted among university students in 2021, two-thirds of respondents felt that the teaching method using gamification enhanced the examined soft skills (information processing, knowledge acquisition and learning skills, thinking, logical and problem-solving skills, communication and presentation skills, cooperation and conflict management skills) to a greater extent than the traditional method based on frontal work that had been used before (Módné Takács et al 2022).…”

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ATINER is an independent and non-profit Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato"s Academy and Aristotle"s Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER"s downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles, Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles" Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER"s mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people"s opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one"s opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education and (Re)searching for the "truth" are the pillars of any free (democratic) society. This is the reason why Education and Research are the two core words in ATINER"s name.

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Improving Soft Skills and Motivation with Gamification in Engineering Education

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Soft Skills Demand and Supply Through the Lens of Higher Education Students

Soft Skills Demand and Supply Through the Lens of Higher Education Students

Productividad gamificada: un aprendizaje lúdico de los sistemas de producción Flow Shop y Job Shop.

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