An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students
PBL (Problem-based Learning) has gained worldwide acceptance as an effective instructional approach that helps students to acquire knowledge as well as develop desired professional skills and attitudes. Contrary to other conventional methods that use problems after theory has been introduced, PBL us...
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author | Luis Roberto de Camargo Ribeiro Maria da Graça Mizukami |
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description | PBL (Problem-based Learning) has gained worldwide acceptance as an effective instructional approach that helps students to acquire knowledge as well as develop desired professional skills and attitudes. Contrary to other conventional methods that use problems after theory has been introduced, PBL uses a problem to initiate, focus and motivate the learning of new concepts. This paper presents and discusses the students' and the teacher's viewpoints on the implementation of PBL in an Administration Theory course of an engineering curriculum at a public university in Brazil. The data were collected by means of unstructured interviews, participant observation and an open-ended questionnaire responded by the students at the end of the course. The results show that despite increasing the workload for the teacher and the students, both evaluated PBL positively because it is more motivating and dynamic. |
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spelling | doaj.art-44d3136c8c5044889fcd7469b70587622022-12-22T00:30:59ZengFaculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp)Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação1414-32832006-01-011seS1414-32832006000100001An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and studentsLuis Roberto de Camargo Ribeiro0Maria da Graça Mizukami1Universidade Federal de São CarlosUniversidade Federal de São CarlosPBL (Problem-based Learning) has gained worldwide acceptance as an effective instructional approach that helps students to acquire knowledge as well as develop desired professional skills and attitudes. Contrary to other conventional methods that use problems after theory has been introduced, PBL uses a problem to initiate, focus and motivate the learning of new concepts. This paper presents and discusses the students' and the teacher's viewpoints on the implementation of PBL in an Administration Theory course of an engineering curriculum at a public university in Brazil. The data were collected by means of unstructured interviews, participant observation and an open-ended questionnaire responded by the students at the end of the course. The results show that despite increasing the workload for the teacher and the students, both evaluated PBL positively because it is more motivating and dynamic.http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-32832006000100001&lng=en&tlng=enaprendizaje basado en problemaseducación superiormetodología de enseñanza |
spellingShingle | Luis Roberto de Camargo Ribeiro Maria da Graça Mizukami An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação aprendizaje basado en problemas educación superior metodología de enseñanza |
title | An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students |
title_full | An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students |
title_fullStr | An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students |
title_full_unstemmed | An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students |
title_short | An experiment with PBL in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students |
title_sort | experiment with pbl in higher education as appraised by the teacher and students |
topic | aprendizaje basado en problemas educación superior metodología de enseñanza |
url | http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-32832006000100001&lng=en&tlng=en |
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