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Building Soft Skills in the Digital Age: a Problem-based Approach

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Building Soft Skills in the Digital Age: a Problem-based Approach
Date

6 Mar 2026 10:00 - 27 Mar 2026 12:00

Location Online
Host university University of Novi Sad (UNS)
Mode Online
WP WP 2
Target groups Master students, PhD students, Undergraduate students
Contact person Nataša Hrabovski - natasa.hrabovski@uns.ac.rs
Duration Up to 1 month in length
Reference code EUG2_T2_1_0068
Type of event Course
Recognition Transcript of records - ECTS
Language English
Recruitment of participants First Come First Served
Number of open spots 30
Is eligible to international certificate Yes
Isced fields of study 0417 - Work skills, 068 - Interdisciplinary programmes involving broad field 06: Information and Communication Technologies

The course Building Soft Skills in the Digital Age is designed to help students develop essential soft skills—digital literacy, communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving. 

During the course, students will work on developing digital literacy skills in an academic setting, enhance their collaborative and communicative skills and engage in discussing global issues.

They will learn how to give and receive constructive feedback and how to implement digital tools for group work and problem-based learning.

These skills will be built around the discussion of real global issues in class and small groups through problem-based tasks.

The topics used as the foundation for group discussions and problem-based learning are based on sustainable development goals of the United Nations, namely SDG3 Good Health and Well-being and SDG4 Quality Education.

For the collaborative work and their presentation, students will learn how to use digital tools such as Padlet, Canva, Miro, Prezi. At the end of the course, reflection activities will provide an opportunity for joint and individual assessment of the experience and the process.

Number of ECTS: 2

Course syllabus (link)

Content and Methodology

The course includes online lectures which will introduce basic concepts regarding online problem-based learning, community of learning, digital literacy skills, communication skills and  UN sustainable development goals 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and 4 (Quality Education). These lectures will be accompanied by workshops where students will be trained to use the suggested digital tools for online synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, create presentations and provide constructive feedback.

The final joint session will be devoted to group presentations, peer review and reflection on the process and take-aways from this learning experience.

In addition, students will collaborate asynchronously within their groups on the problem they chose to deal with, which they will share with other groups.

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