Project-Based Learning and Its Application

The curriculum model of combining learning with working has come into wide use in our higher vocational colleges at present, and the curriculum of combining learning with working is action system curriculum, the traditional discipline curriculum teaching mode has been unable to satisfy its teaching requirements. Project-based learning is a new teaching mode combining theory and practice, which embodies the teaching idea with action as orientation. This paper mainly studies project-based learning and its application in the learning-work combinative courses of higher vocational education, after analyzing on origins, characteristics and advantages of project-based learning, proposes its applied requirements. Application results show that project-based learning can stimulate students' learning enthusiasm, improve their vocational skills and comprehensive abilities, and is suitable for the teaching of learning-work combinative courses of higher vocational education, but it requires higher energy and abilities of teachers comparing with traditional teaching.