PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: THE INTENSIVE WORKSHOP

The intensive workshop is a teaching methodology based on students' learning through group work projects on real and current subjects within limited space and time. This is mainly applicable to subjects that lend themselves to a work project. The intensive group work creates close bonds between the students. The students try out, learn and progress gradually, and through this process, acquire competences and abilities that they will put into practice in the teaching context. Moreover, this methodology will help students to develop and to make contacts in their real and professional lives. The results obtained in the projects improve when they have been undertaken intensively, as students are able to better focus their efforts, rhythm and collaboration. The workshop is applicable to subjects of an architectural projects as may be projects of Engineering, Computer, Design, Architecture, etc. In these subjects the students together in teams to develop their work together in order to obtain a final product. In our case, these are Planning courses in which the final product that is desired is the Urban Project. The themes chosen for the project are real and current issues that allow an approach to professional work of the architect in the field of urban planning. Your choice will respond to the level and complexity of learning in which students are, always looking for current issues, real locations and a social interest. Students conduct field visits and analysis of the target area before work commences. The performance and workshop results improve when done intensively, to acquire by the students, the more concentration of effort, pace and collaboration. In the new university of international exchange and cooperation, this system allows you to link and coordinate students and professors from various universities, contributing to the same subject, the multiplicity of approaches from different cultures. The student participates in an active way in the process of learning, exchanging experiences and views with colleagues and takes responsibility. The starting point is the student/trainee, which take their needs and interests as the focus of educational activity. So that students, can take this course, you must have a series of prior knowledge in the field of Project Planning and Teaching has a rich content that integrates activities close to the workplace. The teacher accompanies students through tutoring in the projects, providing documentation, bibliography. and reference classes that are applied to projects.