Objectives and materials

1. Objectives

This project considers that using PBL and active learning techniques is crucial in an up-to date learning environment, since they provides the ability for students to be immersed into pseudo-real world scenarios, thus encouraging them to take more responsibility for their own learning and apply their knowledge at successively higher levels, which are some of the aims of higher education (lifelong learning).

For the overall reasons, four objectives were set regarding this topic:

1.      Each Jordanian partner university chooses AT LEAST one geodesy course for testing PBL in fall semester 2019 or spring semester 2020. Minimum number of face-to-face hours of the PBL activity: 20.

2.      Jordanian staff makes preparations together with students, including dividing student groups, definition of problems and roles, assessment.

3.      Students take the course using the method of PBL (fall semester 2019 or spring semester 2020).

4.      At the end of the course, an evaluation is made among teachers and students to (a) compare with traditional teaching methods, (b) review what the advantages of PBL are; (c) identify what is not good with PBL.

2. Deliverables/results/outcomes from the workshop & WP 6

      Deliverables/results/outcomes from the workshop & WP 6 (PDF)

3. Materials

      

           1. Active learning & on-line learning. How to implement them (PDF)

             2. Problem Based Learning (PBL) basics: when learning begins with a problem (PDF)

   

             3. PBL design & implementation PBL & Active learning quality assessment (PDF)

        

            4. PBL implementation (example)

            5. PBL example chronogram (example)

  4. Templates to use during the workshop (PBL)

      

      Templates to use during the workshop (PBL) (PDF)