Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The aim of this project is to support participants in developing competences to design and plan educational experiments, based on PBL principles and including elements of curriculum and staff development.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Explain the core characteristics of a PBL module

Skills

• Plan, structure, carry out, and reflect upon a project that starts from a relevant problem within a specific teaching and institutional context
• Apply theories and methods presented in the semester courses to design and plan a PBL based educational experiment, adapted to the relevant context and the relevant group of students, including a description of tasks and roles of students and staff

Competences

• Reflect upon the problem based learning principles embedded in the PBL module
• Cooperate with other team members during the project period and make a joint presentation of the results achieved in the project
• Communicate, in writing and orally, the product and the processes of the project work in a project report, respectively a process analysis, adhering to scientific standards of written and oral communication

Type of instruction

This problem based project should include problem identification, problem analysis, problem formulation and proposed problem solution in the form of a design of and a plan for an educational experiment, including elements from one or more PBL models suited for solving the identified problem. The educational experiment should be adapted to a specific self-chosen teaching and/or institutional context.

The results of the project work should be documented in a project report. The project should preferably be carried out in teams of 2-4 participants and the project work processes should be documented in a process analysis, jointly written by the project team members.

The teaching format is a group project, including self-study, online group work, project facilitation and thematic online sessions. In this semester, the thematic sessions focus on how to fulfil the intended learning outcomes for the project and on scientific writing to improve the quality of documentation in the project reports.

Exam

Exams