Abstract
Online higher education (OHE) is an evolutionary and flexible way of instruction that evolves from traditional forms of distance education incorporating pedagogical advances, information technologies and computational developments. This chapter presents a Soft Skills framework for OHE. It discusses the Soft Skills research context. The chapter also presents OHE research and issues related to Soft Skills with both foci: how Soft Skills can be analyzed and how OHE settings can improve the development of Soft Skills. It discusses the conclusion and proposes venues for the forthcoming OHE future. Soft Skills research is considered an evolving field. The OHE educational experience requires students to excel in Soft Skills including cultural sensitivity, social relations and communications to succeed in a framework of collaborative and digital work that impacts student performance and achievement. There are three categories of Soft Skills that are relevant for OHE: social soft skills, methodological soft skills, personal soft skills, and communication soft skills. The COVID-19 pandemic is adding new needs for faster development. Moreover, the exponential growth of OHE worldwide is challenging system application to meet needs and sensibilities of students and teachers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
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