The Challenge of Problem-based Learning

by Boud,David

• ISBN13: 9780749422912
• ISBN10: 0749422912
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Problem-based learning is the most significant innovation in higher education and education for the professions in many years. Created by education professionals seeking alternatives to what they perceived to be indefensible teaching practices in higher education, it is a way of constructing and teaching courses using problems as the stimulus and focus for student activity.This book examines PBL both sympathetically and critically, points out the strengths and weaknesses of such a curriculum, and presents 30 case studies from a wide range of professional and higher education institutions.This second edition of The Challenge of Problem Based Learning looks at the topic in the light of changes since the first edition was published in 1991. These include completely new chapters as well as substantial revisions to many of the other chapters.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vi
Changing problem-based learning. Introduction to the Second Edition	1	(14)
David Boud
Grahame I Feletti
Part I What is Problem-based Learning?	15	(30)
Not just a method but a way of learning	17	(11)
Charles E Engel
Towards a framework for problem-based curricula	28	(8)
Bob Ross
Why is problem-based learning a challenge?	36	(9)
Don Margetson
Part II Getting Started	45	(44)
Good planning is not enough	53	(5)
Stephen Abrahamson
Persevering with problem-based learning	58	(6)
Peter Schwartz
Conversion to problem-based learning in 15 months	64	(9)
Alexander S Anderson
Initiating problem-based learning at Harvard Medical School	73	(8)
Gordon T Moore
Organizational and institutional impediments to a problem-based approach	81	(8)
Stephen E Little
Chris Sauer
Part III Design and Implementation	89	(92)
Selection of health problems for a problem-based curriculum	93	(10)
Peter J MacDonald
Responding to `non-traditional' students: an enquiry and action approach	103	(14)
Imogen Taylor
Hilary Burgess
Preparing tertiary teachers for problem-based learning	117	(8)
Shona Little
Ensuring that students develop an adequate, and well-structured, knowledge base	125	(12)
Greg Ryan
A hybrid model of problem-based learning	137	(14)
Elizabeth G Armstrong
Case writing: case writers' perspectives	151	(9)
Janet P Hafler
Becoming a problem-based tutor: increasing self-awareness through faculty development	160	(13)
LuAnn Wilkerson
Edward M Hundert
Issues in implemention in an otherwise conventional programme	173	(8)
Donald R Woods
Part IV Examples from different professions	181	(72)
A problem-based module in mechanical engineering	185	(9)
Peter Cawley
Use of an issue-based approach in social work education	194	(9)
Natalie Bolzan
Karen Heycox
Problem-based learning in optometry	203	(8)
Jan Lovie-Kitchin
Problem-based learning for architecture and construction management	211	(7)
Barry Maitland
Problem-based learning in an integrated nursing curriculum	218	(6)
Debra Creedy
Christine Alavi
Applying problem-based learning to practical legal training	224	(9)
Keith Winsor
Industrial enhancement through problem-based learning	233	(11)
John R Usher
David G Simmonds
Iain Mackenzie
Ken Brown
Shirley E Earl
Experiences with problem-based learning in business and management	244	(9)
Alan Gilbert
Stephen F Foster
Part V Student Assessment and Programme Evaluation	253	(56)
Accreditation and assessment in architecture	259	(4)
Barry Maitland
Assessment in problem-based learning	263	(6)
Geoffrey R Norman
Strategies for student assessment	269	(14)
David B Swanson
Susan M Case
Cees PM van der Vleuten
Learning from the assessment of problem solving	283	(11)
David Dathe
Kathleen O'Brien
Georgine Loacker
Mary Georgia Matlock
What can we learn from programme evaluation studies in medical education?	294	(15)
Christel A Woodward
Part VI Beyond Problem-based Learning	309	(31)
Is problem-based learning the only way?	313	(13)
Colin Coles
Towards a praxis of situation improving	326	(7)
Richard Bawden
The limits of problem-based learning	333	(7)
John Drinan
Index	340