Increasing Team Skills of Students of Tourism by Problem-Based Learning

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate, by means of the example from FH Wien, how team skills of students of the bachelor level studies of tourism can be increased by means of the method of problem-based learning. The activity of the so-called Competence Center for Problem Based Learning is introduced in this paper, which realises the education with the method of problem-based learning for students of FH Wien in the cooperation with experts from the application sphere. In this method of learning, real problems from practice are solved according to the requirements of the contracting organization.