What is Problem-Based
Learning (PBL)?
It is magic, myth and mindset
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| What is Problem-Based Learning (PBL)? It is magic, myth and mindset |
| Professor C.Y. Kwan |
| Visiting Professor Department of Pharmacology |
| PBL is becoming an increasingly popular pedagogic jargon. “What does PBL stand for?” your students may ask. Whether PBL stands for Problem-Based Learning, or Partnership and Bonding in Learning (cited from the ‘PBL Student User’s Guide’ by the PBL committee of NUS’s Faculty of Medicine), it makes no difference to some students who do not care as long as this is not a question in the examination. Continue reading |
| Can Asians Do PBL? |
| Associate Professor Khoo Hoon Eng |
| Department of Biochemistry |
| Can Asians do PBL? Adopting the same approach as Mahbubani in his book Can Asians Think?, the answer is “No”, “Yes” and “Maybe”. Before I explain this ambiguous answer, PBL needs to be defined as it is generally accepted. Continue reading |
| Is PBL Suitable Only for the Health Sciences Curricula? |
| Associate Professor Grace Ong |
| Vice Dean, Faculty of Dentistry/ Head, Department of Preventive Dentistry/ Associate Director, CDTL |
| Detective K needs to identify exactly where the 1.7 m suspect, Bozo, was standing when a shot was fired. The bullet was located in a telephone pole at an angle of 60° with an apparent dent in a metal stop sign 2.3 m above the street. Bozo claims that he was standing facing the stop sign but 50 m away. The bullet hole was 3.2 m off the ground. The telephone pole is 10 m away. Continue reading |