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What is Problem Based Learning

Chapter 26
Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges
An approach to learning in which learners inquire into problems about important questions and issues that have no clear answers.
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Developing Digital Literacy Skills with WebQuests and Web Inquiry Projects
Susan Gibson (University of Alberta, Canada)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch026
Abstract
This article identifies digital literacy as an important aspect of new media literacy at the K-12 level. Digital literacy includes developing the skills of information location and application as well understanding how to use available evidence to assist in problem solving and decision making about important questions and issues that have no clear answers. Two web-based examples of instructional strategies – WebQuests and Web Inquiry Projects—are suggested as ways to develop these and other important 21st century learning skills.
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Chapter 4
Education in Higher Education: Trends and Challenges – Innovate in School and/or Innovate the School
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Chapter 15
Engaging on Common Ground: Inclusion of the Gifted Student in the Classroom
An instructional strategy that typically provides students with real-world problems to solve. Learning takes place through the research and activities that solve the problem.
Published in Chapter: Engaging on Common Ground: Inclusion of the Gifted Student in the Classroom; From: Building Inclusive Education in K-12 Classrooms and Higher Education: Theories and Principles
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Developing Educator-Specific Digital Competences With Serious Game Design
Teaching method that promotes learning by utilizing real-world problems.
Published in Chapter: Developing Educator-Specific Digital Competences With Serious Game Design; From: Handbook of Research on Decision-Making Capabilities Improvement With Serious Games
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Chapter 12
Microblogging as an Assisted Learning Tool in Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in Bahrain: The Edmodo Case
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Chapter 10
First-Aid Mental Health for the Pre-Medical Student
A pedagogical approach used to develop critical thinking skills.
Published in Chapter: First-Aid Mental Health for the Pre-Medical Student; From: Mental Health Crisis in Higher Education
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Chapter 38
An Analysis of Learning Designs that Integrate Patient Cases in Health Professions Education
Involves presentation of a problem which triggers students to define their learning needs in terms of the knowledge and skills that will help them address the problem. Various implementations of problem based learning involve sequences of student self-directed inquiry; teacher-directed instruction; and informal and/or formal discussion with peers and teacher.
Published in Chapter: An Analysis of Learning Designs that Integrate Patient Cases in Health Professions Education; From: Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications, and Technologies
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