Continuous Improvement Challenges: Implementing PBL in One University in Romania

• Main Authors: Mihaela Bârsan Raluca, Ştefania Kifor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2020-08-01
• Series: Studies in Business and Economics
• Subjects: continuous improvement; lean higher education; problem based learning
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2020-0022

What do business and education have in common when it comes to continuous improvements? The answer is Lean Principles. Case studies and implementation challenges from some pilot PBL projects in one university, in Romania, are analysed and described in depth, while comparing the educational experience in the university to the challenges and resistance to change that facilitators in the private sector face inside their own companies. Taking this into consideration and based on qualitative data retrieved from interviews carried out in the private sector and in the educational sector, the authors of this paper will present deep insights that are meant to serve as a basis for understanding the “wicked problem” of scalling continuous improvements like Problem Based Learning throughout the entire teaching organization.