Design of “Project Learning” to Create the Future

Introduction

Welcome to this five-article series on an exciting and innovative development in the global education futures space – Project-Based Learning – at FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE. This article series* emerges from a recent book – 未来を創る「プロジェクト学習」のデザイン – or in English: The Design of Project-Based Learning – Learning Methodologies to Transform Our Futures – edited by Professor Noyuri Mima from FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE (FUN). The articles are based on and adapted from the original chapters from the book and are translated by Dr. David Lindsay Wright, formerly an Associate Professor of the same university and who also taught Project-Based Learning courses to FUN students between 2004 and 2011.

* This article  series has been edited from that originally written for FUN website.