Educating IT project managers through project-based learning: A working-life perspective

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 270-288

  Tynjälä, Päivi ^a   Pirhonen, Maritta ^a   Vartiainen, Tero ^b   Helle, Laura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Project management; Project managers; Project based learning; Working life skills

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING OUTCOME; PROJECT BASED LEARNING; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT-BASED COURSE; WORKING LIFE;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 70349311206     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02416     Document Type: Article

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