Problem-based Learning Within Health Professional Education. What Is the Role of the Lecturer? A Review of the Literature.

Haith-Cooper, Melanie

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Publication Date: 2000

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Problem-based Learning Within Health Professional Education. What Is the Role of the Lecturer? A Review of the Literature.

Haith-Cooper, Melanie

Nurse Education Today, v20 n4 p267-72 May 2000

The literature reveals disagreement over the degree of intervention facilitators should make in problem-based learning (PBL). PBL requires a shift to a constructivist teaching philosophy. Instructors who serve as facilitators need training in PBL methods and group dynamics in order to be effective. (SK)

Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Philosophy, Group Dynamics, Health Occupations, Problem Based Learning, Teacher Role

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