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For today’s blog post, I wanted to talk about teaching through problem-based learning (PBL). Much of what I have read has emphasized that teaching in a PBL setting can be difficult, and is a skill that takes time to master. As a current PhD student with little in my teaching portfolio, it seemed like a …

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Case-based and problem-based learning are instructional approaches that encourage active learning and promote for a mindful teaching experience to be used in higher education. The motivation behind both methods is to challenge students with open-ended problems or real-life cases  to promote critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. By being exposed to new scenarios, student work in … Continue reading Active learning Strategies

My closest experience to a case-based class was a graduate class at Virginia Tech on Decision Analysis. It was more of a flipped course in which we had to prepare for the material and were handed a related challenging problem … Continue reading →

 By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45639990Many of the readings for this week’s topic, case-based and problem-based learning, suggested that instructors take their introduction into using case-based learni…

Implementing active learning has proven that it has a positive impact on student engagement and learning. Reading about the benefit of th…

This week’s readings focused on case-based and problem-based learning.  A Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) proposes that “Students learn best by constructing solutions to open-ended, complex, and problematic activities with classmates, rather than listening passively to lectures.” This week’s readings led me to reflect on my own experiences with problem-based learning […]

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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 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 […]

In my education as a teacher, I have learned the importance of active learning and problem based learning in the classroom. I also reflect in my time as a student, and in retrospective I learned the most when I was challenged with applying my knowledge in to a problem or a case study. This is …

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One critique I frequently hear about higher education and engineering is that it’s not like the real world. Rarely in industry will students ever have to write 10 page papers or solve problems from start to finish. The real world is not packaged neatly for us when we try to solve a problem so it’sContinue reading “Bringing Real World Context into Engineering”