Application of Project-Based Learning in Teaching of the Curriculum of Combining Study with Work of Higher Vocational Education

The curriculum of combining study with work is the curriculum reform result of higher vocational education in China, and it has been proven to meet the personnel training orientation of vocational education. However, for the teaching of the curriculum of combining study with work, systematic guidance theory has not been produced yet, and researching on its effective teaching mode has become the most urgent problem needed to be solved at present. Project-based learning is a new teaching mode and has aroused more concern in many of our higher vocational colleges in recent years. This paper designs the project-based learning method for study-work combinative courses of higher vocational education according to the characters of the curriculum of combining study with work. Practice results show that the project-based learning method in this paper is suitable for teaching of study-work combinative courses of higher vocational education, stimulates students' learning enthusiasm and improves their vocational skills and comprehensive abilities, but it requires higher energy and abilities of teachers comparing with traditional teaching methods.