Facilitating Problem-Based Learning (SRHE) [Paperback]

Maggi Savin-Baden (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0335210546 | ISBN-13: 978-0335210541 | Publication Date: June 1, 2003 | Edition: 1

Interest in problem-based learning continues to flourish worldwide; however, there have been relatively few resources to help readers examine the complex issues relating to facilitating its implementation of problem-based learning and the ongoing development of staff, students and the curriculum.

Facilitating Problem-Based Learning explores a broad range of issues about facilitation, in particular: understandings of facilitation that have emerged from the author’s recent re-search and ways of equipping and supporting staff in terrestrial and virtual contexts. It also questions how students are assessed and suggests ways of preventing plagiarism in problem-based learning.

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From the Back Cover

Interest in problem-based learning continues to flourish worldwide. To date there has been relatively little to help staff examine the complex issues relating to facilitating the implementation of problem-based learning and the ongoing development of staff, students and the curriculum. This book explores a broad range of issues about facilitation, in particular: understandings of facilitation that have emerged from the author's recent research and ways of equipping and supporting staff in terrestrial and virtual contexts. It also questions how students are assessed and suggests ways of preventing plagiarism in problem-based learning. It examines what it might mean to be an effective facilitator and suggests ways of designing problem-based curricula that enhance learning. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Higher Education Research at Coventry University where she is Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Health. She first began researching problem-based learning in 1987 and over the last ten years has consulted widely on problem-based learning in the UK and overseas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Open University Press; 1 edition (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0335210546
• ISBN-13: 978-0335210541
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best PBL resource I've found so far!, March 18, 2007

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Ken D. Thomas (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Facilitating Problem-Based Learning (SRHE) (Paperback)

I've been responsible for shifting the primary facilitation style from didactic instruction (classic lecture with some practice) to PBL (problem-based learning) in two large companies (both over 20K employees). Most of the resources available cover PBL in the context of a K-12 or Higher Education setting, rather than a corporate environment. While Maggi's book is still based in her Higher Education experience, this book transcends that context and contains information and strategies directly applicable to a corporate environment.

Even experienced facilitators have a problem grasping the philosophy of PBL, and are therefore prevented from achieving it in their classrooms. This is the first book I've come across to thoroughly distinguish Problem-Based Learning from Project-Based Learning, which is often mistaken for true PBL. The book then moves on to help guide trainers through the transformation from lecturer to facilitator. There are even some sections on performing assessments within a PBL curriculum and conducting virtual PBL sessions - both provide some very interesting ideas (I'll let you know how they work!).

Bottom line -- if you're responsible for designing PBL courses or curricula, facilitating PBL sessions, or even changing your school's or company's approach from lecture to PBL, buy this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wordy, October 26, 2008

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Anthony J. Ross "Anthony ROSS" (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Facilitating Problem-Based Learning (SRHE) (Paperback)

So far I am two thirds of the way through and it still hasn't informed me how to Facilitate Problem - Based Learning. Written for academics by one, if you have a good dictionary you might be able to understand some of it. Disappointing.