Epitech: from project-based teaching to sustainable learning. Training future business managers: EPITECH, an innovative project-based teaching methodology Courses for future business managers: EPITECH, an innovative project-based teaching methodology - 1 - Graciela PADOANI DAVID Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3 University Human Sciences Research Team EA PROFEOR 2261 on Interactions, Professions, Education, Orientation. Domaine Universitaire du “ Pont de Bois ”. B.P. 149, 59653 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France.
[email protected] I. Introduction At times, the misfit between the traditional education system and the potentialities and needs of today’s world are brought home to us more sharply. Most of the time, the traditional education system is based on the teacher-student model: a certain number of students gather in a certain place, facing a teacher who ‘delivers’ his or her knowledge to the students. As long as there were no other channels through which knowledge could arrive, this model remained the only one valid. Today, however, numerous other channels, such as the new technologies for instance, can result in knowledge creation and input. The teacher’s role remains crucial but its nature is changing. The teacher is now required to help structure the knowledge as well as disseminate it and this new role is at least as, and perhaps more, important.1 This means that decision-makers in education need to be prepared for major changes: in the coming century we are likely to see the development of a real ‘school without walls’ […]. As Michel Serres indicated in a government report published in 1992 2, “we need to imagine an entirely new way of reorganising how society gains access to knowledge in the next few decades.” 3 By presenting EPITECH’s teaching system as an example, we have an opportunity to contribute to this debate.