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Tan, Tan-Hsu; Liu, Tsung-Yu; Chang, Chi-Cheng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2007
Many issues have been identified in outdoor teaching, especially in places that lack the capacity to effectively present information about such subjects as historical relics, rare animals, and geological landscapes. This study proposes an Environment of Ubiquitous Learning with Educational Resources (EULER) based on radio frequency identification…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Resources, Educational Environment
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Haney, Jodi J.; Wang, Jing; Keil, Chris; Zoffel, Jennifer – Journal of Environmental Education, 2007
The authors examined teachers' beliefs and classroom practices during a 2-year professional development program that required middle-school teachers to develop, implement, and revise problem-based, interdisciplinary curricula focusing on locally relevant environmental health issues. The results of the study indicate that over the course of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Problem Based Learning, Educational Change, Environmental Education
Bjorck, Ulric – 2001
Students' use of distributed Problem-Based Learning (dPBL) in university courses in social economy was studied. A sociocultural framework was used to analyze the actions of students focusing on their mastery of dPBL. The main data material consisted of messages written in an asynchronous conferencing system by 50 Swedish college students in 2…
Descriptors: College Students, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Marshall, Stephanie Pace; Ramirez, Martin; Plinske, Kathy; Veal, Catherine – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
Within a context of ambivalence and limited resources, school administrators are challenged to create conditions that enable gifted students to thrive. This article discusses how to create learning environments that stimulate talent development; illustrates how the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy created an environment that fosters deep…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Gifted, Problem Based Learning
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Ackerman, Sharon; And Others – Technology Teacher, 1997
A summer school for elementary students used activities in design technology ("children's engineering"), a problem-based approach that encourages students to use a variety of equipment in creating, testing, and solving real-life problems. Design briefs used an array of skills from other content areas of the curriculum. (SK)
Descriptors: Design, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Problem Based Learning
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Elders, Linda; Paul, Richard – Journal of Developmental Education, 2003
Explores ways to help students take learning seriously and ask critical questions about their studies. Describes strategies for students to raise important questions, to distinguish between one-system and competing-systems disciplines, and how to ask questions about a field of study and textbooks. (MZ)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Problem Based Learning
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Sevening, Diane; Baron, Mark – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2002
Study compared students' achievement gains and attitudes using traditional (lecture-based) teaching methods and problem-based learning (PBL) techniques in an addiction studies class. Results showed students did not respond well to PBL and preferred a lecture-based format. Pretest mean scores indicated the PBL group entered the course at a higher…
Descriptors: Addiction, Counselor Training, Problem Based Learning, Student Attitudes
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Mok, Esther; Lee, Wai Man; Wong, Frances Kam-yuet – Nurse Education Today, 2002
Hong Kong nursing students used journals to problem-based learning (PBL) related to dying patients. Increased self-awareness, positive attitude toward death, and culturally sensitive care resulted. PBL methods included information searches, interviews with experts and patients, and tutorials for sharing feelings and information. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Death, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Alexander, Janet G.; McDaniel, Gretchen S.; Baldwin, Mary Sue; Money, Barbara J. – Nursing Education Perspectives, 2002
Describes the implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) into specific courses of the Samford University nursing education program. Discusses its usefulness and indicates that PBL has had a positive effect on students and has exceeded expected outcomes. (Contains 25 references.) (JOW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nursing Education, Outcomes of Education, Problem Based Learning
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Tanner, C. Kenneth; And Others – Clearing House, 1995
Describes a problem-based learning strategy which helps train principals for an increasingly demanding job. Conceptualizes problem-based learning; provides a rationale for this strategy; and uses a real example from a course in problem-based learning taught at the University of Georgia. (RS)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Postsecondary Education, Principals, Problem Based Learning
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Erickson, Dianne K. – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Describes preparation for instruction using a problem-based approach as part of a teaching-strategy repertoire. Describes classes that use the approach successfully, and identifies pitfalls. Suggests ways that mathematics teachers can get assistance in successfully implementing a problem-based teaching approach. Presents research results that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Based Learning, Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics
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Milligan, Frank – Nurse Education Today, 1999
Problem-based learning has significant limits that warrant concern about its use in nursing education: it moves away from emancipatory goals of education, it implicitly supports the medical model, and it lacks the diversity required of a postmodern curriculum supporting different learning styles. (SK)
Descriptors: Andragogy, Cognitive Style, Educational Strategies, Higher Education
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Ozsvath, David L. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2000
Presents a case study to teach about the relationship between sinkhole development and groundwater levels in Orlando, Florida. Discusses the relationship between groundwater levels and sinkhole formation in a karst terrane. Includes discussion questions. (YDS)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environment, Geology, Groundwater
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Williams, Bev – Teaching in Higher Education, 2001
Describes how the use of problem-based learning as an instructional methodology in undergraduate nursing curricula has been identified as one way to facilitate development of nursing students' abilities to become self-directed in learning. Discusses the theoretical links between problem-based learning and self-directed learning. (EV)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Independent Study, Nursing Education, Problem Based Learning
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White, H. B. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2000
Calls for more manuscripts on problem-based learning in the biochemical sciences. Includes information on problem-based learning conferences. (SAH)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Higher Education, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving
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