Active Learning for Creating Innovators: Employability Skills beyond Industrial Needs

Autor/inn/en	Ito, Hiroshi; Kawazoe, Nobuo
Titel	Active Learning for Creating Innovators: Employability Skills beyond Industrial Needs
Quelle	In: International Journal of Higher Education, 4 (2015) 2, S.81-91 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-6044
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Active Learning; Industry; Innovation; College Students; Employment Potential; Research Skills; Business Administration Education; Qualitative Research; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Aktives Lernen; Industrie; Collegestudent; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Forschungsleistung; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	In 2012, Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology initiated a project entitled "Improving Higher Education for Industrial Needs" in which 147 universities have participated. One of the main purposes of this project is to identify what industrial needs and help develop university students' employability skills through active learning as there has been a growing concern that university graduates lack employability skills that industry seeks. However, Japanese university instructors are unfamiliar with or lack skills for adopting active learning approaches in their courses. This study explores what skills industry needs, examines how these skills can be developed and assessed at university, and describes a course entitled "Business Planning in Practice" that intends to develop these skills through active learning offered at the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, one of the universities participating in the national project. Business Planning in Practice has been selected as an active learning target course for the Improving Higher Education for Industrial Needs to demonstrate how a university course can employ active learning approaches. The findings show that the skills that industry needs are discovery skills, these skills could be nurtured in the form of research skills at university, and Business Planning in Practice had positive impacts in improving these skills through active learning approaches. This paper concludes with suggestions for how Japanese universities could establish an environment to create innovative human resources. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01