INFO101 Module 1 Notes
What is problem-based learning?
The idea that you can solve problems in unique ways.
● Students should be empowered to solve real-world problems.
● Problem-based learning started as a way to give medical students real-world problems
to solve. It eventually made its way into business, law, engineering, and education.
● By the 1960s, you could find elements of problem-based learning within the new social
studies framework of Massialas and Cox and Herbert Thelen’s group investigation
model.
● Problem-based learning fits well within the social family of education because of the
emphasis on real-world problems in human systems.
● Children should be engaged in solving problems in their world.
4 Phases of Problem-Based Learning
1. Present or identify the problem.
2. Develop a plan.
3. Implement the plan.
4. Evaluate the implementation.
Ideal Context for Problem-Based Learning
● It’s important that the problems feel real to students.
● It’s not project-based learning, it’s problem-based learning because you don’t have to
design a product.
● Ideally, students will solve problems that actually exist in their owl worlds.
