A new program, Medialogy within the technical faculty at Aalborg University was confronted with the problem that their 6 th semester students didn't have enough knowledge about Problem Based Learning (PBL) so they could use the approach to structure their projects. Furthermore Medialogy is an interdisciplinary program combining technical subjects with humanistic subjects so the need for methodological knowledge and training was obvious. To solve the problem a workshop - a learning lab - was established, with the aim to teach and train the methods connected to PBL and establish awareness of the importance of a coherent methodology and the use of theory of science. The workshop was aimed at the students as well as the teachers. The paper describes the workshop as well as the outcome for the students and the teachers. The immediate result was that students in a very convincing way could build upon their previous experience, and from there using the PBL approach to start their problem analysis. The students show excellent work concerning problem formulation, structuring their learning and their conscious use of methods. The results for the teachers were a common understanding of PBL and a mutual interest in each other's research and teaching areas.
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