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Ortiz, Brenda I. Lopez – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
This paper expands on a poster presentation about the results of research in PBL in distance education environments integrated in the PBL design model as defined by traditional literature. The results will be laid out as they are relevant to each stage of the process. Research on discrete aspects of its design process is necessary to enlighten…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Distance Education
Kelly, Mary L.; Cullen, Theresa A.; Kim, Min-Joung – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Pre-service teacher programs have a central goal of fostering skills necessary for students to become successful professional educators. This goal is often challenging because students typically do not have sufficient opportunities to gain realistic experiences before becoming teachers (Andrews, 2002). In addition, teaching is a complex, dynamic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Multimedia Instruction, Problem Based Learning, Special Education
van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G.; Salden, Ron; Corbalan, Gemma; de Croock, Marcel; Kester, Liesbeth; Paas, Fred – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Several empirical studies are discussed which indicate that adapting the level of support, the difficulty of the learning task, or support as well as difficulty has beneficial effects on learning and transfer test performance. Three conclusions can be drawn from the presented studies. First, both the level of available support and the difficulty…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Integrated Curriculum, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Instructional Design
Hseih, Wen-Lan; Smith, Brian K.; Stephanou, Spiro E. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
A team consisting of three faculty members from Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness management, and Food Science with two research assistants at Penn State University has been working for three years on creating a food product case library for a problem-based learning and case-based instruction course. With the assistance of experts from the food…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Foods Instruction, Higher Education
Park, Sung Hee; Ertmer, Peggy; Cramer, Jeff – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
This paper describes the experiences of three middle school teachers following a two-week summer workshop in which they were introduced to a technology-enhanced problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy. Based on their collaborative experiences during the school year developing and implementing a PBL unit, the three teachers increased their confidence…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle Schools, Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning