Problem-based Learning

Problem-based learning (PBL) is an exciting alternative to traditional classroom learning.

With PBL, your teacher presents you with a problem, not lectures or assignments or exercises.Since you are not handed "content", your learning becomes active in the sense that you discover and work with content that you determine to be necessary to solve the problem.

In PBL, your teacher acts as facilitator and mentor,

rather than a source of "solutions."

Problem based learning will provide you with opportunities to

• examine and try out what you know
• discover what you need to learn
• develop your people skills for achieving higher performance in teams
• improve your communications skills
• state and defend positions with evidence and sound argument
• become more flexible in processing information and meeting obligations
• practice skills that you will need after your education