High-quality education helps in finding a job - but student skills heterogeneity and student reluctance to move towards a professional attitude are important barriers to employability. We re-engineered some of the technical courses of a Masters in software development using a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach. Although initial results are encouraging, the cost of using PBL must be taken into account. Two aspects are particularly expensive: (i) set-up of the software development practicum, a mid-sized information system and its environment; (ii) screenwriting of problem-based learning scenarios, including procurement of input artefacts.
@article{arxiv.1501.01468,
title = {The Cost of Problem-Based Learning: An Example in Information Systems Engineering},
author = {Vincent Ribaud and Philippe Saliou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01468},
year = {2015}
}