E=MC2 (Education = meaningful constructivist collaboration)

Abstract

The rush is on for increasingly faster training and education for project managers. As educators, we are told that we need more practitioners with industry training, professional certification and university degrees. No longer a career extension catered for with a diploma from the local TAFE, we now need project managers with master’s degrees, doctorates (to replace the ageing baby boomers that occupy the cloisters) and more recently, undergraduate Bachelor’s degrees before they have ever set foot outside the confines of a university to get a taste of the real world. And we have to do it while project managers travel to remote sites with little or no communications, and please fit it in around other commitments. Make it smaller – chunk it. Make it easier – more transportable. Be more flexible. Make it more easily digestible for a vocation that is impatient to be seen as a true profession. In this paper, the author explores the implications of project management education at the speed of light in an increasingly hectic world.