A Proposal of a New Team Building Method in IT PBL: A Trial of the SENTAI-Hero-Exercise

Abstract

In recent years, the development of digital transformation has accelerated worldwide. Therefore, the importance of practical IT human resource development is increasing day by day. Active learning has been introduced as a practical human resource development method. In Japan, practical education programs that transcend the barriers between universities and between industry and academia have been implemented since 2006, and Project Based Learning (PBL) has been widely used as a method to realize such programs. However, in Japan, the university faculty members don't have enough specialty in project management, and many of them feel difficulty in team management. Especially, IT faculty members are seemed not good at facilitation. In this study, we organize PBL from the perspective of project management and report the results of our trial of a method to smoothly implement team building, which is particularly important when launching PBL for IT faculty. This method doesn't use any tools and easy icebreaking for the start of PBL.