Implementation of Project Oriented Problem Based Learning (POPBL) in introduction to programming course

Abstract

Project-oriented problem-based learning (POPBL) is one instructional methodology that has been widely applied in many other Teaching and Learning (T&L) activities. POPBL incorporates the development of students’ personal skills and also promotes creativity in any given T &L environment. In this work, a POPBL that would be implemented in Introduction to Programming course taught at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia is presented, as well as discussion concerning the students ’ results and overall achievement. The results gained have depicted that POPBL is very much applicable to be implemented even for freshmen in Computing field; that is also intended to expose the students with more problem-solving skills especially in the real-world business application systems.