Improving the Students' Big Data Era Skills through the Online International Project X-culture

Abstract

Among the most crucial for the specialist of the era of Big Data skills are critical-thinking, problem-solving, collaborative and digital skills. In this paper, we investigate how international online project "X-culture" that was implemented into the course influenced such vital students' skills. To evaluate the impact we used information from the X-culture project database that was collected through various surveys and conducted an interview with students. According to the results received students skills developed significantly after the participation in the project. Also we implemented a correlation analysis to determine weather students' critical-thinking, problem-solving, collaborative and digital skills affected the final reports scores on the international project. In our case collaborative skills played the most substantial role for getting the highest final reports scores while the relationship between digital skills and reports' results was the weakest.