  Traditional teaching, usually based on lectures and tutorials fosters the
idea of instruction-driven learning model where students are passive listeners.
Besides this approach, Project Based Learning (PBL) as a different learning
paradigm is standing behind constructivism learning theory, where learning from
real-world situations is put on the first place. The purpose of this paper is
to present our approach in learning embedded systems at our University. It is
based on combination of traditional (face-to-face) learning and PBL. Our PBL
represents an interdisciplinary project based on wireless sensor monitoring of
real-world environment (greenhouse). The students use UML that was shown as an
excellent tool for developing such a projects. From the student perspective, we
found that this high level of interdisciplinary is very valuable from the point
of view of facing the students with real-life problems.
