The Nature of Problem-based Learning

PBL is an instructional method in which students work in small groups to gain knowledge and acquire problem-solving skills. A major characteristic of PBL is that the problem is presented to the students before the material has been learned rather than after, as in the more traditional ‘problem-solving approach’. A second notable feature of PBL is that the problems are presented in the context in which students are likely to encounter the given (or a similar) problem in real life. It is this contextualisation of material which makes PBL an attractive strategy for the education of professionals (cf. Chapter 1).

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