Problem-Based Learning (PBL), an Important Paradigm for Bioinformatics Education

Assessment in problem-based learning (PBL).

Problem-based learning (PBL), a relatively new approach to teaching, has been introduced in several of the medical schools in the Southeast Pacific region. This approach emphasises active, self-directed learning and puts the emphasis on the individual student and his/her role in the educational process. It is well known that assessment plays a large role in influencing student learning behaviou...

Problem Based Learning (PBL) in an Infectious Diseases Fellowship

Problem-based learning (PBL):Developing learning capability through the WWW

One interactive learning strategy that holds considerable potential for supporting more learner centred forms of teaching and learning is problem-based learning (PBL). Problem-based learning “ ...is an approach to structuring the curriculum which involves confronting students with problems from practice which provide a stimulus for learning” (Boud & Feletti, 1997). At a more fundamental level P...

Problem-based learning for inter-professional education: evidence from an inter-professional PBL module on palliative care

INTRODUCTION The objective of this article was to analyze the theory and pedagogical basis of the use of problem-based learning (PBL) for inter-professional education (IPE) in undergraduate health science education and present evidence from a palliative care iPBL (inter-professional PBL) module that confirms the importance of the two methodologies being used together. METHODS More than 1000 s...

Facilitating Sustainability of Education by Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

This paper focuses on two approaches to facilitate sustainability of education development, such as pedagogical approach and technological approach. We regard using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as a strategy of the pedagogical approach and application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a strategy of the technological approach. The two approaches are possibility combined in o...