Soft Skills Training Through Cooperative Learning: A Case Study

Abstract

In this competitive world, teamwork, learning ability and soft skills along with academic excellence are prerequisites for the career growth of a student. In the global work culture, engineering students have to work in groups. It is the responsibility of the institute to restructure the learning situations in the changing scenario. A few changes in college teaching are required for bringing in the desired change in which students learn in groups. This paper is about structuring the appropriate teaching-learning environment for learning the soft skills. Herein, we describe the experiment conducted at K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik, India, for teaching the characteristics of a master student and developing soft skills through cooperative learning. In cooperative learning, students work in groups to maximize their own and each other’s learning. An attempt has been done in this study to demonstrate the application of cooperative learning for developing the soft skills through the master student programme.