Open AccessPromoting Students' Soft Skills in a Telecommunication Engineering Course with an Elevator Pitch Activity
Author(s) -
Miguel Ferrando-Rocher,
Stephan Marini
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of emerging technologies in learning/international journal: emerging technologies in learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1868-8799
pISSN - 1863-0383
DOI - 10.3991/ijet.v16i24.26767
Subject(s) - elevator , context (archaeology) , computer science , process (computing) , event (particle physics) , key (lock) , service (business) , course (navigation) , value proposition , transversality , proposition , subject (documents) , product (mathematics) , computer security , world wide web , programming language , engineering , business , marketing , mathematics , linguistics , history , mathematical analysis , philosophy , physics , geometry , structural engineering , archaeology , quantum mechanics , aerospace engineering
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.