Applying PBL approach to improve the teaching effect of IS Project Management unit

IS Project Management is the core unit for Information Systems students and is a capstone unit to build students´ professional skills. This unit embraces a large set of theory of knowledge and involves nine knowledge modules of project management. The teaching effect used to be unsatisfactory among students in the traditional teaching method as students would find it boring and difficulty to learn. This paper proposes to apply PBL (Problem Based Learning) approach in the teaching and learning process by having students explore the potential problems hiding behind the typical failed cases associated with each knowledge module. This teaching reform has been proven to be very effective through highly motivating students´ interests in learning and spontaneous study.