Promoting Students' Soft Skills in a Telecommunication Engineering Course with an Elevator Pitch Activity

Authors

  • Miguel Ferrando-Rocher Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universi-dad de Alicante, Spai
  • Stephan Marini Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universi-dad de Alicante, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i24.26767

Keywords:

Education, learning environments, partnership, collaboration, evaluation

Abstract


An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a process, product, service, organization, or event and its value proposition. The name comes from the idea that it should be possible to deliver the sum-mary within the time span of an elevator ride, so anywhere between 30 sec-onds and 2 minutes, which means the key points need to get across quickly. In this particular educational context, technical students have been encour-aged to defend, under the typical rules of the elevator pitch, the knowledge acquired during the semester in a specific subject. This contribution focuses on the classroom experience and how the transversality of the activity can help students to strive and think in a different way than they are used to in the classroom of a technical career.
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Published

2021-12-21

How to Cite

Ferrando-Rocher, M., & Marini, S. (2021). Promoting Students’ Soft Skills in a Telecommunication Engineering Course with an Elevator Pitch Activity. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 16(24), pp. 273–279. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i24.26767

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 24 (2021)

Section

Short Papers

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