Implementation of Padlet and Moodle to Improve the Soft Skills of Future Teachers in Art Classrooms

Abstract

This study seeks to meet the need to find ways of introducing soft skills in the daily work of university students. Like hard skills, these soft skills must also be developed in order to meet the professional demands of a globalised world where interpersonal and intrapersonal skills play a fundamental role in effective communication when carrying out a specific job. For this purpose, a collaborative task was proposed in the art module of a teaching degree using the Padlet and Moodle educational platforms. The results show that these platforms aimed at fostering self-directed work have a positive effect, underlining the importance of collaborative peer learning environments. At the same time, they highlight the difficulty of conceptualising a set of variables to define and characterise soft skills, and the challenge faced by university lecturers in order to effectively put them into practice.