The University of British Columbia

Are there quiet students in your small group discussions? Do you know if they are actively listening and reflecting on others' comments?

Learn about the principles in PBL case writing to enhance group functioning, promote intrinsic motivation and ultimately stimulate students learning.

Join us over lunch to learn about underpinning conceptual and structural tenets of PBL leading on to the importance of problems in PBL, and the essential characteristics of effective problems.

Students came to the university with diverse learning experiences. How do students adapt to Problem-Based Learning in their first year?

How do PBL, Wordpress and Vista fit together? Optimizing learner-centered curriculum in large classes

A science course employing diverse instructional and assessment techniques will be introduced. Our experiences with tutor-less problem-based learning in a large classroom setting will be described.

Experienced Problem-based Learning tutors from the faculty of Medicine will share their experiences in facilitating discussions with challenging students.

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the basics of Problem-Based Learning (PBL). You will experience the PBL process from the perspective of a new tutor in the Faculty of Medicine.

How do we know if the students are learning what we want them to learn? What, why, when and how exactly do we want to assess?