Project-based learning

When students are allowed to work on real-world challenges, the entire world becomes a school.

What is Project-Based Learning?

Project-based learning refers to experiential learning—students in project-based learning work in groups to solve genuine, curriculum-based, and frequently multidisciplinary challenges. Learners choose which activities to pursue and how to tackle an issue. They collect data from many sources, analyze it, and extract knowledge from it. Their education is intrinsically meaningful because it is grounded in reality and involves grown-up abilities like teamwork and contemplation. Students exhibit their newly gained information at the conclusion and are graded on how much they learned and how well they express it. Rather than directing and managing student work, the teacher's responsibility is to help and advise them throughout this process.

Raising Student Awareness

The real-world focus of PBL activities is central to the process. Students are driven to work hard when they understand that their effort is ultimately meant as a solution to a genuine problem or a project that will have an influence on others. PBL projects educate students on how to break down significant global issues into specific local action steps and teach essential knowledge and generate awareness.

The Role of Technology

Technology makes PBL possible. For outlining, producing essays, evaluating numerical data, and keeping track of acquired information are all activities that students use word processors, spreadsheets, and databases. E-mail, electronic mailing lists, forums, and other online tools help students communicate and collaborate with others outside of the classroom. The Web enables access to museums, libraries, and other faraway physical venues for the study. Students can collaborate to produce electronic works of art, music, or prose; engage in a simulation or virtual environment, and work together to complete a real-world goal or expand global knowledge. And all work, not just that of a single instructor, class, or school, may be placed on the Web for critique by actual audiences. Technology plays a role in assessment and evaluation too.