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Digital Project-Based Learning in the Higher Education Sector

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Innovations in Learning and Technology for the Workplace and Higher Education (TLIC 2021)

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This paper discusses evaluation findings from a digital project-based course in the higher education sector. The empirical findings focus on students’ attitudes, practices, and preferences towards digital project-based learning. The evaluated course was developed and taught in the context of the Master’s program for Education at Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE). It aims at the autonomous project-based planning, execution, and critical reflection of an individual empirical study carried out by the participating students. This paper presents a discussion of the structure, the digital methodology, and the outcomes of the course, using digital qualitative interviews for the evaluation research. By doing so, the study investigates how students deal with a digital project-based learning environment and how these results can be constructively implemented to improve future digital or blended-learning scenarios in the higher education sector.

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    https://www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/7684+M5054de7a952.html (access on 2021/4/8).

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    cf. Baron, B., 1998:273.

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    Christoph Knoblauch

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Knoblauch, C. (2022). Digital Project-Based Learning in the Higher Education Sector. In: Guralnick, D., Auer, M.E., Poce, A. (eds) Innovations in Learning and Technology for the Workplace and Higher Education. TLIC 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 349. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90677-1_17

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