

- John Dewey, known as the father of project-based learning.
- John Dewey's University of Chicago Laboratory Schools for Children, the first school to practice "learning by doing".
- McMaster University in Canada, the first university to establish project-based learning as part of its education in the 1960s.
- Aalborg University in Denmark, established project-based learning through engineering in the 1970s.
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute, known for project-based learning.