New challenge for teachers: dealing with soft skills in multinational environments

Abstract: Globalization is not only influencing social and economics perspectives of Society. It is also a challenge for higher education teachers. In the case of IT degrees, well known curricula models and proposals as well as specific studies are diminishing uncertainty in the area of technical knowledge and skills. But success in multinational IT professional environments strongly depends on deployment of non technical abilities (the so called soft skills) which should be promoted among students to enable graduates reach best results. But which soft skills are most important in this type of environments? This paper presents results of a specific survey among experts and students intended to contribute to the determination of a recommended set of skills to be promoted by teachers in multinational teams of students