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COVID-19 pandemic has optimized digital platforms as a twenty-first-century workplace environment. Hence, our future workforce is expected to be prepared to face the unseen challenges and the constantly changing industrial demands. In this line, the lack of requisite skills set among the students of Engineering in India is widely noted as a major reason for unemployability of the Engineering graduates. In order to overcome this mismatch, the Indian educational system, which mostly relies on content-based instruction, should include skill-based teaching as a part of the engineering curriculum. Hence, the chapter proposes the development of twenty-first-century skills like creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration utilizing Dornyei’s motivational strategies and employing ICT tools for equipping the students of engineering with the skills to be career ready for the globally competitive world of work.
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Sethuraman, M., Charath Chandran, H., Radhakrishnan, G. (2023). ICT and Twenty-First-Century Skills for the Students of Engineering. In: So-Sum Wai-Cook, M., Saleh, A., Bista, K. (eds) Online Teaching and Learning in Asian Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38129-4_14
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