How to do PBL

Purpose of this Site

What is PBL?

Why PBL?

Theory
Research

PBL in the classroom

Group Dynamics

Individual Roles

Role of instructor

How to do PBL

Example Problems

Resources

Schools using PBL

PBL at Stanford

PBL Organizations

Ways to learn PBL

A practical guide to Problem Based Learning

The Teacher Pages of NASA's Classroom of the Future provides an informative and practical way to use PBL in the classroom.

Savery and Duffy (In Press), discuss issues for instructional design in constructivist environments:

* Anchor all learning activities to a larger task or problem.
* Support the learner in developing ownership for the overall problem or task.
* Design an authentic task.
* Design the task and the learning environment to reflect the complexity of the environment students should be able to function in at the end of learning.
* Give the learner ownership of the process used to develop a solution.
* Design the learning environment to support and challenge learners' thinking.
* Encourage testing ideas against alternative views and alternative contexts.
* Provide opportunity for support and reflection on both the content learned and the learning process.

The next page will describe the higher order thinking skills that PBL encourages.

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