"When students include arts education in their higher education they will have experiences that they can later integrate into their work, experiences that will help them learn for long-term success. Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, weighs in on the importance of arts in challenging the way people think. “Artists always ask the imagination to move beyond its usual confines, to see the work in new ways.” https://www.edcor.com/arts-education-develops-important-workplace-skills/
What are students saying?
"Yet despite [their] technical backgrounds, Gopisetty and Wallace, along with four other students speaking on a panel at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. this week, praised their experiences in the arts and the importance of soft skills as key to setting them up for success in their respective fields. And it’s not just students who feel this way. Recentsurveys have repeatedly found that employers want college graduates with strong soft skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration." https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-06-12-students-in-tech-say-soft-skills-and-the-arts-set-them-up-for-success
What do we say?
As part of a collaborative group, founding member Ryan Archer contributed to an open educational resource (OER) on using VR to develop soft skills. As part of that initiative they developed this infographic that outlines some of the important information involving soft skills and VR. For more information please visit the OER at https://vrsoftskills.weebly.com/