Active learning is not the conventional passive class method of classroom lectures, but by actively participating in the learning process and learning proactively by students themselves, it is possible to improve the learning effect. It's the learning method you want.After becoming popular in the United States, active learning took root in university education, and is now being incorporated into all elementary, junior high and high school education.
The society we live in is rapidly progressing due to the introduction of AI and globalization, and people's values are diversifying.In addition, in the global corona disaster that has lasted for more than two years, remote work is rapidly accelerating both physically and mentally.Under these circumstances,Understand the other person's position and values, and then convey your thoughts and opinions to the other person to deepen mutual understanding.To this end, active learning education based on presentations, group learning, and experiential learning will become even more important.
In recent years, PBL (Problem Based Learning) has been attracting attention. PBL is one of the active learning, learning to acquire the ability and attitudes related to problem solving.The Department of Tourism at our university focuses on PBL education, mainly through 2nd and 3rd year seminar education.For example, in group work, students find a direction while repeatedly discussing "what is the problem and what is needed", and use presentations as needed to achieve their goals. raising.
In the Department of Tourism, in addition to the airline, hotel/bridal, and marketing fields, each seminar has concluded partnership agreements with companies in a wide range of fields such as regional revitalization.In addition to corporate collaboration, we will expand the range of various plans, proposals, and event promotions through industry-government-academia collaboration, and solve and verify complex problems and hypotheses as projects, leading to exploratory learning through project-based learning. increase.
In this way, each student's proactive and proactive actions will enable them to actually experience the business scene (while making more and more mistakes), and to integrate the theoretical and practical aspects.While utilizing the output cultivated and acquired through these efforts,It is possible to understand the other person's position and values, and then convey your own thoughts and opinions to the other person, further deepening mutual understanding.Cultivate the ability to appropriately respond to real-world problems that arise every day and connect them to solutions!Why don't you participate in the PBL of the Department of Tourism?
The Department of Tourism plans to hold a presentation and poster session on the PBL efforts of each seminar (currently 2nd and 3rd year) on April 4 during Freshman Week.The posted photo is from the previous year's results presentation (March last year).
2020: 2nd and 3rd year PBL results presentation (Presentation scene by poster session)
