Problembased Learning as an Approach to the Design of Distance Learning

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Problem-based Learning as an Approach to the
Design of Distance Learning

• Dave Lewis

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What is Problem-based Learning?

• a pedagogical strategy for posing significant,
  contextualized, real world situations, and
  providing resources, guidance, and instruction to
  learners as they develop content knowledge and
  problem-solving skills

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What is Problem-based Learning?

• a pedagogical strategy for posing significant,
  contextualized, real world situations, and
  providing resources, guidance, and instruction to
  learners as they develop content knowledge and
  problem-solving skills

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What is Problem-based Learning?

• a pedagogical strategy for posing significant,
  contextualized, real world situations, and
  providing resources, guidance, and instruction to
  learners as they develop content knowledge and
  problem-solving skills

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What is Problem-based Learning?

• a pedagogical strategy for posing significant,
  contextualized, real world situations, and
  providing resources, guidance, and instruction to
  learners as they develop content knowledge and
  problem-solving skills

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What is Problem-based Learning?

• a pedagogical strategy for posing significant,
  contextualized, real world situations, and
  providing resources, guidance, and instruction to
  learners as they develop content knowledge and
  problem-solving skills

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Example of Problem-Based Learning

• You are the head of pediatrics at a large city
  hospital. Jane Barton is one of your patients.
  Doctor, what will you do in the cases of Jane's
  baby? Jane Barton is pregnant. She first came to
  you about two weeks ago after she and her husband
  received the results of tests ordered by her
  family doctor. The tests indicate that Jane and
  Ralph's baby is anencephalic. The couple is
  concerned about the fetus and wonder what to do
  if Jane cannot deliver a normal, healthy infant.

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Historical Perspective

• PBL was first developed by medical professionals
  as approach to educating doctors
• early 1950s
• (Savery, 1994)

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Why PBL?

• PBL holds that learning is accomplished by
  knowing and doing
• Knowledge and the ability to use knowledge are
  important
• Employers expect new employees to be prepared to
  enter the workplace

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Barriers to Problem-based Learning

• Difficult Transition
• More Time to Teach Same Content?
• Faculty Lack Facilitator Skills
• Changing the Curriculum

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Advantages to PBL

• Emphasis on Meaning, Not Facts
• Interpersonal Skills and Teamwork
• Facilitator-Student Relationship
• Transfer of knowledge

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Why PBL and Distance Learning?

• passive readings based course ???
• use the web for what it is

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Distance LearningThree types of interactions

• Leaner-content interaction
• Learner-instructor interaction
• Learner-learner interaction
• (Moore and Kearsley, 1996)

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Tools of the trade

• Email
• Chat
• Bulletin Board

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Chat
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Bulletin Board
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Bulletin Board
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