Students' experience of global project based learning course

Abstract

The purpose of Global Project Based Learning Course (hereinafter referred to the gPBL) is learning for students to work on problem solving on their own, and to develop global skills. The global skills are defined 4 points, "Global human ability", "Problem solving skills" "Communications skills" and "Cross-cultural understanding". For the training of 4 skills, participants visited Thailand in 8 days. They formed mixed teams of Japanese and Thai students in the gPBL. Therefore, it was able to deepen the Cross-cultural understanding through field work and discussion. Furthermore, it was good opportunity to cultivate teamwork ability and to acquire the ability to communicate across borders through the action together in private. This paper describes the specific activities through the Authors' experiences.