TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwartz,Peter L.
AU  - Webb,Graham
AU  - Mennin,Stewart
TI  - Problem-based learning: case studies, experience and practice 
T2  - Case studies of teaching in higher education
SN  - 0749434929
AV  - LB1027.42. S39 2001
U1  - 378.17 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Kogan Page
KW  - Problem-based learning
KW  - Education, Higher
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-179) and index; Contributors --; Introduction --; Sect. 1; Political, Administrative and Resource Issues --; 1; Come and See the Real Thing: Convincing faculty members to accept a proposal to adopt Problem-based learning (PBL) within a curriculum --; 2; No Money Where Your Mouth Is: Resource intensity of PBL; obtaining faculty tutors in the face of competing demands --; 3; Into the Lion's Den: Introducing PBL into a combined clinical teaching attachment; dealing with organizational difficulties --; 4; Lost in the Melee: Converting a traditional curriculum to a 'hybrid' PBL curriculum; reducing 'overload' in the curriculum --; 5; But What if They Leave with Misinformation? Convincing sceptical faculty about 'self-correction' mechanisms in PBL groups --; 6; Mixed Models and Mixed Messages: Implementing PBL during periods of administrative transition; dealing with challenges facing students in a new curriculum in which only some courses use PBL --; 7; Overcoming Obstacles: Achieving a vertically integrated PBL curriculum in a traditional, departmentally organized medical school --; 8; Forward from the Retreat: Acting on a proposal to introduce PBL into a long-established, traditional medical curriculum --; Sect. 2; Issues Relating to Teachers --; 9; Too Little, Too Late? The importance of group- and self-evaluation and timely feedback in PBL tutorials --; 10; Not More PBL: Responding to clinical students' boredom with paper-based PBL --; 11; Why Do They Ignore It? Getting students in a PBL curriculum to pay attention to important learning issues that do not appear to them to be central --; 12; Redesigning PBL: Resolving the Integration Problem: Translating a PBL model from one discipline to another; getting students to integrate knowledge and learning in a PBL course --; 13; Why Does the Department Have Professors if They Don't Teach? Confusion about the meaning of 'self-directed learning' - addressing the confusion and minimizing its effects when implementing PBL --; 14; Faculty Development Workshops: A 'Challenge' of Problem-Based Learning? Dealing with difficulties during faculty development workshops on PBL resulting from participants' different backgrounds and expectations --; 15; The Students Did That? Inducting faculty members and students into a new PBL curriculum --; Sect. 3; Issues Relating to Students --; 16; Mature Students? Difficulties in PBL process when ' mature' students take control of groups --; 17; To Admit or Not to Admit? That Is the Question.: Selecting students for PBL programmes; reconciling differing views among students of the nature and goals of PBL --; 18; Why Aren't They Working? Responding to poorly functioning tutorial groups in PBL --; 19; I Don't Want to Be a Groupie: Dealing with a student who fails a PBL unit because of poor participation in the group --; 20; Reflecting on Assessment: Choosing a method that assesses both the knowledge gained and the learning process of PBL --; 21; Assessable Damage: Dealing with factors causing a student's hostile reaction to assessment in a PBL course --; 22; They Just Don't Pull Their Weight: Assuring individual accountability of students in small tutorless PBL groups --; Conclusion --; Further Reading --; Index
ER  -