Integrating project management into project-based learning: Mixing oil and water?

Morgan (1983) broadly defined project-based learning (PBL) as “an activity in which students develop an understanding of a topic or issue through some kind of involvement in an actual (or simulated) real-life problem or issue and in which they have some degree of responsibilities in designing their learning activities” (p. 66). Because PBL emphasizes students´ involvement in the learning process, it goes beyond cognitive gains of students and values a transformed learner, an indistinctly motivated one (Morgan, 1983). Likewise, Grippa and Secundo (2009) argued that PBL, compared to instructor-led learning, appears “long-term, interdisciplinary, and student-centered” (p. 544).