Problem-based Learning

Collaboratively edited by Peter Schwartz, Stewart Mennin, and Graham Webb, Problem-Based Learning: Case Studies, Experience, And Practice, is a strong guide to and advocate of the problem-based learning technique, which is used in numerous academic fields as a critical approach to teaching students practical applications and helping them better grasp abstract material. Problem-Based Learning uses numerous, clearly detailed case studies from a wide variety of teaching situations involving the problem-based learning approach. Problem-Based Learning addresses everything from teaching methodology to recalcitrant students to skeptical scholastic system politics. Recommended for teachers, lecturers, tutors, course leaders, and curriculum developers.