Humans have 2 major ways of learning, Memorization with repetition, or engagement. Traditional learning methods use memorization and repetition. Project-based learning uses engagement and is much more fun!

What is Project-based Learning? Discover the learning science behind how you develop real skills for the workplace and that help to future-proof yourself via project based learning.

Project-based learning is an approach to how a person learns that involves providing projects or problems that need to be solved, built, or created. Learners use the problem as a launching point for researching new concepts, using trial and error, building solutions and learning as they build, evaluating the options available, making decisions about which solution to pursue, and more.

21st-century skills are skills and abilities that have been identified as important for success in the 21st-century, particularly compared to previous centuries.

Active Learning Project-based learning at its core focuses on the learner, not on an instructor or a professor or a teacher delivering knowledge. Project-based learning and peer code reviews are part of active learning: learners must actively participate, engage, and respond. This is different from passive learning such as lectures, presentations, MOOCs, or watching online videos.

Active learning requires learners to analyze, evaluate, and create. The majority of our curriculum is made up of projects which are essentially problems in the form of “build a solution for XYZ.” As learners research, analyze, build, test, and fix, their engagement is through the roof compared with passive learning and the retention rate is closer to 90% (compared to passive learning at 5-10%).

Many other tech learning providers claim to do project-based learning, however, just because their learners do one or two projects, it does not mean that they are really doing project-based learning.

Above shows a spectrum of project-based learning: any form of knowledge transmission by a single source of truth (e.g. instructor or professor) takes away from the need to research, analyze, or evaluate, meaning learners don’t build critical thinking or problem-solving skills.

If you aren’t solving problems but are asking for answers from an instructor, then you are hindered in developing problem-solving skills and learning how to be resourceful.

One of the most important things you need to learn to future-proof yourself is how to learn: unless you’re doing real project-based learning, you will depend on someone else to provide answers for you.

Learners do not develop soft skills Learners develop 21st-century skills and soft skills

COMPLETE

A PROEJCT

SPEND

POINTS

EARN POINTS

COMMUNITY POINTS

GAMIFICATION DESIGN MATTERS Incorrectly designing a gamification system can have negative effects and results on learner motivation and behaviour. The use of these 6 elements is to encourage learning and to motivate the learner.

What is Peer Learning
and How Does It Happen at

Engineering
Labs and
group work

Case
studies and
discussions

Group work and
assignments

Student
small groups

Stack Overflow,
Youtube, and other
online resources

Peer code
reviews

Discord
channels

Peer Reviews Are a Learning Tool and Industry Standard Peer code reviews are an industry standard and part of every engineer or developer’s job. They help maintain high quality, decrease bugs and errors, reduce future tech debt, and more.
Students learn in being reviewed and in reviewing, and are operating at the top four levels of the skills pyramid. Reviewers must evaluate, analyze, think critically, and create ways to break the submitted solution and construct tests.

Uncover Our Modern Learning Model Discover our modern learning approach, use of technology, and flexible learning model.

Accreditation Learn more about our accreditation and our partner, Woolf University.

Discover Our Silicon Valley Standards We’re the only program to train students to Silicon Valley programming standards. Understand Valley standards.`

Humans have 2 major ways of learning, Memorization with repetition, or engagement. Traditional learning methods use memorization and repetition. Project-based learning uses engagement and is much more fun!

What is Project-based Learning? Discover the learning science behind how you develop real skills for the workplace and that help to future-proof yourself via project based learning.

Project-based learning is an approach to how a person learns that involves providing projects or problems that need to be solved, built, or created. Learners use the problem as a launching point for researching new concepts, using trial and error, building solutions and learning as they build, evaluating the options available, making decisions about which solution to pursue, and more.

21st-century skills are skills and abilities that have been identified as important for success in the 21st-century, particularly compared to previous centuries.

Active Learning Project-based learning at its core focuses on the learner, not on an instructor or a professor or a teacher delivering knowledge. Project-based learning and peer code reviews are part of active learning: learners must actively participate, engage, and respond. This is different from passive learning such as lectures, presentations, MOOCs, or watching online videos.

Active learning requires learners to analyze, evaluate, and create. The majority of our curriculum is made up of projects which are essentially problems in the form of “build a solution for XYZ.” As learners research, analyze, build, test, and fix, their engagement is through the roof compared with passive learning and the retention rate is closer to 90% (compared to passive learning at 5-10%).

Many other tech learning providers claim to do project-based learning, however, just because their learners do one or two projects, it does not mean that they are really doing project-based learning.

Above shows a spectrum of project-based learning: any form of knowledge transmission by a single source of truth (e.g. instructor or professor) takes away from the need to research, analyze, or evaluate, meaning learners don’t build critical thinking or problem-solving skills. If you aren’t solving problems but are asking for answers from an instructor, then you are hindered in developing problem-solving skills and learning how to be resourceful.

One of the most important things you need to learn to future-proof yourself is how to learn: unless you’re doing real project-based learning, you will depend on someone else to provide answers for you.

Learners do not develop soft skills Learners develop 21st-century skills and soft skills

Inspired by research into gamification in video games, online community development, and economic studies, Qwasar uses 6 elements of gamification in learning. These elements are designed to work together to both direct and motivate learners.

Economies, levels, and skills help learners to navigate their own learning and their new technical world while simultaneously allowing them to feel and take confidence in how far they have progressed and what they’re capable of doing. The reward that comes with finishing a project, plus the responsibility of using correction points wisely, encourages learners to take ownership of their learning, submit work with minimal errors, and progress through their tracks.

COMPLETE

A PROEJCT

SPEND

POINTS

EARN POINTS

COMMUNITY POINTS

GAMIFICATION DESIGN MATTERS Incorrectly designing a gamification system can have negative effects and results on learner motivation and behaviour. The use of these 6 elements is to encourage learning and to motivate the learner.

What is Peer Learning
and How Does It Happen at

Engineering
Labs and
group work

Case
studies and
discussions

Group work and
assignments

Student
small groups

Stack Overflow,
Youtube, and other
online resources

Peer code
reviews

Discord
channels

Modern Learning Discover our modern learning approach, use of technology, and flexible learning model.

Accreditation Learn more about our accreditation and our partner, Woolf University.

Silicon Valley Standards We’re the only program to train students to Silicon Valley programming standards. Understand Valley standards.

Humans have 2 major ways of learning, Memorization with repetition, or engagement. Traditional learning methods use memorization and repetition. Project-based learning uses engagement and is much more fun!

What is Project-based Learning? Discover the learning science behind how you develop real skills for the workplace and that help to future-proof yourself via project based learning.

Project-based learning is an approach to how a person learns that involves providing projects or problems that need to be solved, built, or created. Learners use the problem as a launching point for researching new concepts, using trial and error, building solutions and learning as they build, evaluating the options available, making decisions about which solution to pursue, and more.

21st-century skills are skills and abilities that have been identified as important for success in the 21st-century, particularly compared to previous centuries.

Active Learning Project-based learning at its core focuses on the learner, not on an instructor or a professor or a teacher delivering knowledge. Project-based learning and peer code reviews are part of active learning: learners must actively participate, engage, and respond. This is different from passive learning such as lectures, presentations, MOOCs, or watching online videos.

Active learning requires learners to analyze, evaluate, and create. The majority of our curriculum is made up of projects which are essentially problems in the form of “build a solution for XYZ.” As learners research, analyze, build, test, and fix, their engagement is through the roof compared with passive learning and the retention rate is closer to 90% (compared to passive learning at 5-10%).

Many other tech learning providers claim to do project-based learning, however, just because their learners do one or two projects, it does not mean that they are really doing project-based learning.

Above shows a spectrum of project-based learning: any form of knowledge transmission by a single source of truth (e.g. instructor or professor) takes away from the need to research, analyze, or evaluate, meaning learners don’t build critical thinking or problem-solving skills. If you aren’t solving problems but are asking for answers from an instructor, then you are hindered in developing problem-solving skills and learning how to be resourceful.

One of the most important things you need to learn to future-proof yourself is how to learn: unless you’re doing real project-based learning, you will depend on someone else to provide answers for you.

Learners do not develop soft skills Learners develop 21st-century skills and soft skills

Inspired by research into gamification in video games, online community development, and economic studies, Qwasar uses 6 elements of gamification in learning. These elements are designed to work together to both direct and motivate learners.

Economies, levels, and skills help learners to navigate their own learning and their new technical world while simultaneously allowing them to feel and take confidence in how far they have progressed and what they’re capable of doing. The reward that comes with finishing a project, plus the responsibility of using correction points wisely, encourages learners to take ownership of their learning, submit work with minimal errors, and progress through their tracks.

COMPLETE

A PROEJCT

SPEND

POINTS

EARN POINTS

COMMUNITY POINTS

GAMIFICATION DESIGN MATTERS

Incorrectly designing a gamification system can have negative effects and results on learner motivation and behaviour. The use of these 6 elements is to encourage learning and to motivate the learner.

What is Peer Learning
and How Does It Happen at

Engineering
Labs and
group work

Case
studies and
discussions

Group work and
assignments

Student
small groups

Stack Overflow,
Youtube, and other
online resources

Peer code
reviews

Discord
channels

Uncover Our Modern Learning Model

Discover our modern learning approach, use of technology, and flexible learning model.

Accreditation

Learn more about our accreditation and our partner, Woolf University.

Discover Our Silicon Valley Standards

We’re the only program to train students to Silicon Valley programming standards. Understand Valley standards.

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