COMBINING SIMULATION-BASED TRAINING AND A FLIPPED CLASSROOM IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT LEARNING

Every year, countless projects are finished late, go over budget or end up being cancelled, often because their project managers, lack the necessary tools and techniques to support their decision-making.

Students of Project Management (PM) courses around the world have difficulty integrating what they learn in the classroom. Having studied each concept individually, students may then struggle and even fail when it comes to applying these concepts in a real-life project.

Simulation-Based Training (SBT) can contribute to the solution of these problems by linking the concepts learned during a PM course and providing the experience of managing a simulated project that serves as preparation for doing so in reality.

The objective of this research is to study the application of SBT together with Flipped Classroom Methodology (FCM), a new type of blended learning which reverses the traditional educational arrangement by delivering instructional content outside of the classroom taking into account the intercultural side of FCM and SBT.