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Leary, Heather; Walker, Andrew; Shelton, Brett E.; Fitt, M. Harrison – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2013
Despite years of primary research on problem-based learning and literature reviews, no systematic effort has been made to analyze the relationship between tutor characteristics and student learning outcomes. In an effort to fill that gap the following meta-analysis coded 223 outcomes from 94 studies with small but positive gains for PBL students…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutors, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Background
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Gurell, Seth; Kuo, Yu-Chun; Walker, Andrew – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
Open education, as embodied in open educational resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW), has met and dealt with several key problems. The movement now has a critical mass of available content. Leveraging no small amount of funding and associated development, open education has the tools to collect, disseminate, and support the discovery of open…
Descriptors: Open Education, Test Validity, Problem Based Learning, Educational Resources
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Walker, Andrew; Shelton, Brett E. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2008
The overwhelming success of the commercial game market has brought increased attention to emerging work in educational game design. Much of the existing work in educational games has a strong similarity to the field of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), which has a rich history of conceptual literature as well as empirical investigations. Despite…
Descriptors: Investigations, Educational Games, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods