A problematic, yet common, assumption among educational researchers is that when teachers provide authentic, problem-based experiences, students will automatically be engaged.
A problematic, yet common, assumption among educational researchers and designers is that when teachers provide authentic, problem-based experiences, students will automatically be engaged (Blumenfeld, Kepler, & Krajcik, 2006; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Parsons & Ward, 2011; Willems & Gonzalez-DeHass, 2012).
Being often a problem-based experience, a bad choice of search spaces will result in poor solutions.
We used phylogenies to provide a problem-based experience, following the advice of Perry et al. (2008), who pointed out the need to engage college students in active, hands-on curricula relevant to macroevolution.
Kamin et al. [ 12] investigated students' perceptions of a virtual problem-based learning experience by comparing video cases used in virtual and face-to-face settings.
Therefore, we decided to follow up the factual knowledge of undergraduate medical students who had been randomly exposed to a small problem-based learning experience within the context of a traditional, largely lecture-based curriculum.
The University of South Carolina School of Medicine has a hybrid curricular structure with lectures, laboratories, small group learning, problem-based learning, clinical experiences, and six vertical curricula: geriatrics, nutrition, substance abuse, bioethics and professionalism, patient quality and safety, and ultrasound.
The Supervisors held frequent SCORPIOs, designed to provide students with a problem-based, integrated learning experience, and frequent formative and summative in-class tests and practical assessments.
This paper presents an experience of Problem-based learning in a High Performance Computing course.
More support from the WHO and from colleges with experience in problem-based pharmacotherapy teaching and the P-drug concept is vital.
The studies were conducted in a Polytechnic in Singapore established in 2002, offering 3-year degree programs to 17 years old students who finished secondary education and who had no experience with problem-based learning when they enter this school.
