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 I believe to prepare students for jobs that haven’t been created yet, we need to teach them how to be great problem solvers so that they’ll be ready for anything. One way to do this is by teaching content and skills using real-world case studies, a learning model that’s focused on reflection during the problem-solving […]

Implementing active learning has proven that it has a positive impact on student engagement and learning. Reading about the benefit of the Problem-Based Learning approach has assured me of what school of architecture has given me. The cased/problem-based pedagogy is driven by challenging, open-ended problems of multiple right answers designed on making students work as …

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Ludwig Wittgenstein is an Austrian-French philosopher working in the tradition of analytical philosophy. The mentionability of Wittgenstein is, he subverted the norms of thinking philosophically. According to Wittgenstein, philosophy is all about doing problems, that is, if you say you are doing philosophy, it means, you are doing a real life problem. In other words, […]

Problem-Based Learning is at a very important position, especially in Engineering programs. In this blog, I am going to talk about a Senior Project course at my former department (Industrial Engineering) to draw the importance of factors that are impacting the success of the course. I was on the committee of that course for three […]

  As I ponder on the different formats of learning, I find the fascinating characteristics of different learning formats and…

 This week the readings focused on case, problem, and project-based learning. These three pedagogical approaches are all examples of ways to actively engage students in a classroom and there is a large amount of literature that focuses on these ap…

This week’s readings on project-based learning and case-based learning sparked a lot of interest in how I want to teach one day as a full professor or graduate student in charge of organizing my class content. I believe that problem-based learning objectives help students contextualize their learning into long-term application that can help prepare ourContinue reading “Long-Term Study Abroad as PBL”

Case-Base Learning (CBL) and Problem-Based Learning (PBL) are pedagogical methodologies that challenge students to apply learned topics into a practical case that needs to be solved from a reality perspective. Without knowing much about these methodologies, I have been part of courses that apply this engineering education approach at Virginia Tech both as a studentContinue reading “Case-Based and Problem-Based Learning Experiences and Perspectives”

  We are bombarded with a lot of information everyday, but  how much do we really process and store in our mind? The answer lies in the fact that ow a particular piece of information was presented to us and did we participate in learning the piece that was being taught. These principles are very …

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I began this week by reading “Case-based Learning” from the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. As I read, I reflected on the number of case-based and problem-based assignments that I have been assigned as a student or led as