XXX PANELIST Teaching Soft Skills Online with Innovation and Entrepreneurial Students

This session explains how you can help students to focus on their individual entrepreneurial journey in an online setting.

During the last two years, innovation and entrepreneur students at UCL started the 1st semester with the elective course “Self Leadership: Developing your entrepreneurial mind-set”. The course has been built on Fadel’s model of meta learning (Fadel, 2015), especially on the character elements Curiosity, Resilience, Mindfulness, Courage,(self)Leadership and Ethics.

In this session I will explain how I teach these untraditional topics at BA-level, both in an online and a physical setting. I will also discuss how soft skills in general can be part of the curriculum.

At the end of the session participants will get the chance to discuss their own experiences with teaching soft skills.

Outcomes

• How soft skills can be taught - also in an online setting.
• How soft skills can be taught at academies and universities.

Niels Høyer

Lecturer, UCL University College, Denmark

I teach Innovation and Entrepreneuship students together with students within International Hospitality Management. Besides the more traditional topics within these two educations I am very engaged in how the students can develop transversal skills and personal characters that might help them in their future career