Soft Skills in Software Engineering Technicians Education

Abstract

The research work analyzes the problem of forming software engineering technicians’ soft skills, approaches to defining the list, detail and the maturity level of software engineering technicians’ soft skills and basic ways of their formation, in particular: development of new academic programs or individual innovative courses, the problem-oriented approach, the AGILE approach, gamification of learning, development of interdisciplinary courses, etc. The obtained data enable developing methodological recommendations to form software engineering technicians’ soft skills when studying the humanities and social sciences and experimentally investigating their efficiency.

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