Abstract
Project-based learning (PBL) is a learner-centered teaching method that seeks to enable students to develop themselves and their knowledge through means relevant to their lives. The structural principles of the method reflect contemporary knowledge regarding the importance of autonomy, activity, and collaboration in learning, and harmonize well with the information age and its technologies. Despite these, however, project-based learning implementation in higher education has been slow and accompanied by difficulties. In this paper, I review the main features of project-based learning, the advantages it offers to higher education, and the main challenges that its successful implementation faces. On the basis of a synthesis between theoretical and practical knowledge, I present and demonstrate ways for integrating the project-based learning principles with available information and communications technologies, and offer implementation guidelines for lecturers and institutions of higher education.
Highlights
The last few decades have seen a dramatic change in the world of education that could be described – theoretically if not always practically – as a paradigm change
At the root of this change stand two main sources: research, which discovered or sometimes re-discovered the importance for learning of inner motivation and autonomy, social and constructivist processes, and active real-life experience; and the technological changes that brought about the communication and information revolution, which vastly broadened the realm of human communication and interaction, and to a large extent made the old way of teaching which focused on redundant knowledge transmission
I present and demonstrate ways for integrating information and communications technologies in the teaching of project-based learning (PBL), in order to advance its integration in higher education and promote its pedagogical agenda, and offer some implementation guidelines for lecturers and institutions of higher education
Summary
The last few decades have seen a dramatic change in the world of education that could be described – theoretically if not always practically – as a paradigm change This paradigm shift may be defined as the transition from a traditional teacher-centered and subject-centered teaching to a student-centered approach, in which the student's needs, interests and learning processes constitutes the main focal point (Lathika, 2016; Nanney, 2004). Towards a Successful Integration of Project-based Learning in Higher Education: Challenges, Technologies and Methods of Implementation integration faces within it. I present and demonstrate ways for integrating information and communications technologies in the teaching of PBL, in order to advance its integration in higher education and promote its pedagogical agenda, and offer some implementation guidelines for lecturers and institutions of higher education
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