Problem-based Learning

by Peter L. Schwartz

Book Overview

Problem-based learning (PBL) is becoming widely used in higher education. Popular in the medical sciences, PBL is now finding applications beyond - in engineering, sciences and architecture - and is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0749435305
• ISBN13: 9780749435301
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Recommended for teachers, lecturers, tutors & course leaders

Collaboratively edited by Peter Schwartz, Stewart Mennin, and Graham Webb, Problem-Based Learning: Case Studies, Experience, And Practice, is a strong guide to and advocate of the problem-based learning technique, which is used in numerous academic fields as a critical approach to teaching students practical applications and helping them better grasp abstract material. Problem-Based Learning uses numerous, clearly detailed case studies from a wide variety of teaching situations involving the problem-based learning approach. Problem-Based Learning addresses everything from teaching methodology to recalcitrant students to skeptical scholastic system politics. Recommended for teachers, lecturers, tutors, course leaders, and curriculum developers.