Design and Implementation of an Online Leadership Education

In early 2020, many universities started to offer online classes in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Leadership education has been conducted for first-year Master’s students at the Graduate School of Engineering and Science at the Shibaura Institute of Technology since 2008, which is compulsory subject for more than 90 students. In online leadership education, it is necessary to devise an environment setting for applying the acquired knowledge to practice. This work-in-progress paper describes the design and implementation of an online leadership education aimed at showing leadership in project-based learning (PBL) exercises in a virtual environment.