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Individual Learning Issues |
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An important objective of PBL is that students become responsible for their own learning and for what they will actually research. Consequently, throughout the PBL process, as students define and analyze the problem, they generate "learning issues." Learning issues are questions generated by the students that need to be answered in order to solve the problem. When the problem has been developed to the point that further analysis and understanding is inhibited by their lack of knowledge, the students undertake their self-directed learning, guided by the "Learning Issues" and motivated by the actions they anticipate taking. The design of the problem and questioning by the teacher/tutor will lead students to identify learning issues relevant to the curriculum content objectives. Some versions of PBL provide some learning issues for students in the form of objectives. In other versions of PBL, students are totally responsible for generating their learning needs. The role of the instructor is described on the next page. |