Teaching project management: a systems challenge

Abstract

Systems thinking action research and experiential learning are used to help understand, to help make relevant and to help manage a complex system. The system is Business students’ learning in the project management subject. The monitored system outcome is students’ competency as expressed in their final grade in the subject. Action research and experiential learning interventions will be used tree times during the semester to increase the desired outcomes. There is a constraint on resources as currently defined. This paper is mainly about the description of the system and the conceptual model of the system.