Interesting article

As part of an assignment I was asked to find an article on a specific pedagogical approach. As the university I work for promotes itself as a problem based learning (PBL) university, I found an article on this theme.

Nowadays, it is more important to be able to find and use information rather than possessing it. This requires higher order skills such as critical thinking, doing research and using and transforming information. PBL is seen as a constructivist approach, which can help student acquire these higher order skills. Savery (2006) has created an overview of the development of PBL, its requirements to make it successful and sets it off against inquiry-based and case-or project based learning. He also identified the following challenges: the idea of PBL and the high stake standard tests which are used in the US and focus on drill and practice do not match and might have a negative influence on implementation. Furthermore, in the fast changing world we now live in, the skill to find and assess information becomes more and more important. For the full article, please refer to: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=ijpbl

Reference: Savery, J.R. (2006). Overview of problem based learning. The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning. 1 (1)