Co-education of master course students and business people

Abstract

Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching and learning method in which students solve real-world problems and gain knowledge and skills for actual problem-solving. Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (AIIT) gives the master's degree based on the PBL activity, called AIIT PBL, to master course students. Most of the students in AIIT are business people, and hence the co-education of master course students and business people is an important topic for PBL educations. We present the co-education of master course students and business people by PBL in Education Network for Practical Information Technologies (enPiT) performed by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Japanese government. We introduce the AIIT enPiT curriculum and perform the PBL with master course students and business people. The effectiveness of our coeducation is evaluated in questionnaires. The answers to the questionnaires show that our co-education is effective and we learn three lessons.