PROJECT-BASED LEARNING APPROACH IN A COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY

The traditional disciplinary academic environment and learning practices do not provide a rich enough environment for deep learning of software development practices. Thus, to provide a richer learning environment, in the 2015/2016 school year, an interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL) pilot approach was introduced where all the courses of the same semester focus on a complex software project provided by a software house. This paper describes the motivation, the concept and presents some qualitative results.