Problems-based Learning in Higher Education Under Regular and COVID19 Pandemic Conditions: An Educational Experience

Offshore wind and waves will play an important role at helping the European Union (EU) meet its sustainability goals. Among other efforts, a clear commitment is needed in the area of High Education, a field in which the European Union is also making its contribution through a miriad of initiatives. Amongst these, it is worth highlighting the Renewable Energy in the Marine Environment (REM) master (https://www.master-remplus.eu/), an European Union funded Erasmus Mundus program that started in 2018. In this work, an educational experience corresponding to one subject in the REM Msc is described. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance and resilience of the Problems-Based Learning Methodology (PBL) and compare the educational outcomes obtained in standard conditions first, and then, under COVID-19 pandemic conditions.