A PBL-Tailored Work Breakdown Structure Tool for Promoting Students' Voluntary Task Management

Abstract

Project-based learning (PBL) has been widely introduced in higher education as a practical, efficient and student-centered learning method. One of the important factors to achieve effective PBL is student-centered process management. However, these task management skills are difficult to conduct for students because it has no obvious answer and requires experience rather than knowledge. The goal of this study is to promote acquisition task management skills by students themselves at PBL, and we develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) tool with aiming task definition, organization and assignment. The tool evaluation is conducted on our university's PBL. According to the evaluation, students who use the tool were more aware of their task management than students who do not use it.