Training Journal: Problem-based learning: thebenefits
Training Journal: Problem-based learning: thebenefits to students and organisationsIn PBL the traditional teacher and student roles change significantly. Students assume increasing responsibility for their learning while teachers become resources, tutors and evaluators, guiding students in their problem-solving efforts. Where PBL is used as a traditional teaching approach - that is, where the teacher sets the problem but already has the knowledge to solve it - this causes little difficulty. Used as a developmental approach where neither 'teacher' nor student has the knowledge to solve the problem, a different range of teaching skills is required. The learning becomes student-centred, not teacher-centred. Teachers are expected to change their role from being the centre of attention and the source of all knowledge to being a coach and facilitator of the acquisition of that knowledge.
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