P R O B L E M - B A S E D L E A R N I N G
What is PBL?
an overview
Contacts
people at maricopa
PBL at Maricopa
lesson plans and original materials
PBL Resources
searchable archive
What is Problem
Based Learning?
What is PBL?
Why PBL?
More About PBL
Problem Solving
PBL Stories
brief description
how we started
a slide show
broader then PBL
experiences from instructors and students
Why PBL?
by Donna Gaudet, Math Faculty Chair (Rio Saldo College) and Yvonne Zeka, Director of the Learning Center (GateWay Community College
Donna: Yvonne and I became interested in PBL because we wanted to improve the problem-solving skills of our community college math students.
Yvonne: Yes, during the spring semester of 1996, I was searching through problem-solving resources on the Web. I was looking specifically for teaching techniques, and I discoverd the PBL website at Southern Illinois University Medical School.
Donna: The PBL website provided us with lots of resources and articles. After a month or so of reading about PBL, we decided that we would like to implement it in our math classes.
Yvonne: All of our reading convinced us that PBL was a process that could help us reach our goal.
And so the journey began...