英文摘要 |
Local governments have been endeavoring to host tourism activities for promoting. Accordingly, tourism education should emphasize students' understanding of tourism industries and their skills in hosting tourism activities. To help cultivate students' ability to define problems in tourism industries and formulate solutions accordingly, this study incorporated problem-based learning (PBL) in a course on tourism activity design and management; the course was aimed at second-year university students, jointly taught by professional and academic instructors, and conducted in the first semester of the 2018 academic year. The purpose of the course was to enhance students' knowledge and skills in hosting tourism activities. Audiovisual teaching materials, off-campus experiential tourism activities, project workshops, and tourism activity scenario simulation competitions were employed in the course. In addition to conventional classroom learning, students also participated in off-campus tourism factory visits; students were guided in observing the actual operations of the factory, thereby experiencing industrial culture first-hand. The quantitative research instruments were questionnaires on the tourism factory visit, the instructors' teaching, and students' learning outcomes. The qualitative instruments were a learning checklist on off-campus tourism factory visits and an evaluation of a tourism activity case study. The results of the 6 tourism activity scenario simulations were incorporated in the discussion concerning how the tourism activity course integrated with PBL affected instructor teaching and student learning; furthermore, suggestions were proposed for the future implementation of the course. According to the results of this study, the use of different teaching spaces, competition rewards, and autonomous learning improved students' learning interests and positive learning attitudes. According to students' learning outcomes and feedback, PBL course design is suitable for courses related to tourism activity design; PBL raises students' interests in learning to plan projects and encourages them to voluntarily engage in practice of the activities, thereby enhancing learning motivations and improving learning outcomes. |