Using Project-Based Learning in Online University Seminars
Using Project-Based Learning in Online University Seminars

Summary/Abstract: Project-based learning encourages students to interact, to communicate and collaborate while actively solving problems. Students can manage their work, share information and present their results to colleagues as a base for further discussions within the context of online teaching and learning. The teacher's role in this context is more advisory than authoritative, having the responsibility to establish the inquiry-based assignments for his students and to offer them significant feed-back. The present paper focuses on the use of teaching and learning strategies based on the project method within online seminars in the subject of Fundamentals of Pedagogy. The students involved in the present research were in the first university year, studying this subject during the second semester within the module for teacher training. This module is not mandatory for all students, being optional for those students, who take into consideration a possible teaching career. The project-based learning was used in the online seminars in order to help students deepen, clarify and complete the knowledge acquired during the online courses at the same subject and also in order to facilitate the creation of an interactive online learning environment and increase students' satisfaction and motivation in the context of conducting online activities at this subject.

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