SP'25 Faculty Workshop #2: Problem-Based Learning (PBL): Preparing Students to Problem-Solve Creatively and Effectively

Faculty Seminar Series on Teaching & Learning

Theme: "Engaged, Evolving, and Energized Teaching & Learning: What, How, and Why"

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure formatted (and the same can be said for our teaching) K. Patricia Cross

Come join us as we explore a number of these strategies and approaches in the series “Engaged, Evolving, and Energized Teaching & Learning: What, How, and Why"

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You are invited to join a dynamic learning community by participating in this specially designed workshop series for all faculty (across all disciplines and rank). We’ll share strategies and best practices from research-based pedagogy. Come and meet new colleagues. Great conversations and handouts guaranteed.

Session 2: Problem-Based Learning (PBL): Preparing Students to Problem-Solve Creatively and Effectively

As the world becomes more global and information grows exponentially, our students are facing increasingly more complex problems whose solutions cannot be readily found in textbooks. Our responsibility is then to enable our students to approach issues through an inquiry-based instructional model in tackling authentic real-world problems. Problem-based learning (PBL) utilizes a guided learning by discovery approach. However, this model requires us to reconsider our role as instructors, to reexamine the content (e.g., what and how much); and to rethink how we will evaluate our students as we support them in their development from a novice learner to an expert.

We’ll share strategies on more creative brainstorming and hypothesis-testing, in addition to ways to help our students become resilient as they tackle these more difficult, experiential questions.