Case-teaching Problem of Project Management: Study for Undergraduate Business Major at Research-oriented Universities

Abstract

The knowledge and competency of Project Management (PM) have become one of major common capability of employees while facing the huge change of competitive environment, that lets the curriculum and major of PM gain high attention from universities. Case teaching in PM courses is an important and highly applicable teaching method. Undergraduates program for business major at research-oriented universities start up to open the courses involving more and more PM. While, case teaching of PM has its unique challenges due to discrepancies of different training purpose and learners characteristics. Based on PM feature, case-teaching theory, instructional design theory and learner characteristics, this article studies and summarizes the following idea, case teaching theory and strategic feature of case teaching associated with PM curriculum for undergraduates of business school at research-oriented universities, including case features, value orientation and coordination process of case teaching etc.