By Elayne A. Shields, Fort Hays State University

This resource will help instructors implement Project-Based Learning in any course in higher education. This module on Project-Based Learning is a systemic approach to learning which is used internationally in businesses, organizations, and agencies to develop and connect "knowledge workers." The scope of Project-Based Learning might include improving a school curriculum, finding better ways to deal with human resources, improving accounting procedures, bringing people with disparate perspectives together to solve problems for the benefit of a business community or building integrated systems for international humanitarian aid.

Project-Based Learning incorporates methods from problem-based learning, cooperative learning, constructivist learning, active learning and project management theory. Click here to get a powerful introduction to the methodologies for project-based learning.