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Microsoft, for one, has partnered with virtual education platform Coursera to offer workers courses and certificates in hard (data analysis) and soft (communication) skills alike.
Hard skills vs. soft skills. The distinction between hard and soft skills used to be clear. However, as technology gets smarter, these skill sets have become more similar.
The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. The mental abilities of a four-year-old that we take for granted – recognizing a face, lifting a pencil, walking across a room, answering a question – in fact solve some of the hardest engineering problems ever conceived...
In the debate of soft skills vs. hard, one comes out on top.
The term "soft skills" was created by the U.S. Army in the late 1960s. It refers to any skill that does not employ the use of machinery. The military realized that many important activities were included within this category, and in fact, the social skills necessary to lead groups, motivate soldiers, and win wars were encompassed by skills they had not yet catalogued or fully studied.
The BBC Computer Literacy Project 2012 was an initiative to develop students' marketable information technology and computer science skills. Computer programming skills were introduced into the National Curriculum in 2014. [19] [20] It was reported in 2017 that roughly 11.5 million United Kingdom citizens did not have basic computer literacy ...
Whether you want to buff up your resume or increase your own skill set, there are many ways to develop hard and soft skills. Here's how.
The skills and competencies considered "21st century skills" share common themes, based on the premise that effective learning, or deeper learning, requires a set of student educational outcomes that include acquisition of robust core academic content, higher-order thinking skills, and learning dispositions.