Group project -based learning at a university: a social effect

Abstract

Group project-based training at a university is considered as a modern teaching technology aimed at solving a wide range of tasks from the development of practical skills of students to the integration of business tasks of potential employers for university graduates into the activities of the university. The implementation of group project training has an impact on the participants of the educational process, which is expressed in the manifestation of a social effect. The social effect of the implementation of group project-based training at a university is defined as the result that the subjects of project-based training receive. The relevance of the research topic is characterized by the need to study the social effect for participants in the educational process when implementing new educational technologies, such as group project training. The purpose of the research is to study the social effect that can be obtained in the case of implementation of group project-based training at a university. The main research method is system analysis. The experience of implementation of group project training is presented on the example of a university. It has been concluded that the implementation of group project-based training at a university will contribute to the manifestation of a social effect at the level of the region, employers, university and students.

Keywords

• social effect
• group project training
• project workshop
• student
• professional competence
• practical skills