Information about Auburn's PCTL Project
What is Problem-Centered Teaching and Learning?
This is the Illinois Math and Science Academy Center for
Problem-based Learning site:
http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/cpbl.html See particularly the tutorial under "what is problem-based learning?"
A shorter overview of PBL: http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/problearn.html
Samford's
PBL Initiative
http://www.samford.edu/pbl/how3c.html
Tutorial
on the basics http://143.88.86.98/pacee/steps/tutorial/problearn.htm
Features
of Problem-Based Learning http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/newsletter/issue0496/pbl.html
ON-LINE ARTICLES
A number of good on-line articles from Samford's page http://www.samford.edu/pbl/how2.html#On-Line
Articles
Problems: A Key Factor in PBL, by Barbara Duch, from
the Center for Teaching Effectiveness http://www.udel.edu/pbl/cte/spr96-phys.html
Scaffolding for Success in Problem-Based Learning
by Tony Greening, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences,
The University of Ballarat, Australia http://www.utmb.edu/meo/f0000012.htm
Collaborative learning models: Action Research http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~slg2537/websitepages/Research.html
EXAMPLES
Research article "Balancing Real-World Problems with Real-World
Results" from Phi Delta Kappan, January, 1998 by Rick Gordon. http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/learning/balance.pdf
Must have Adobe Acrobat Reader - a free download
Examples of Problem-Centered Learning presented as WebQuests and organized
for grades K-3, 4-5, middle school, and high school: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
An article on history, development of student WebQuests and tips on how
to make the best use of them is at: http://www.iste.org/L&L/archive/vol26/no7/index.html
Searching for China: This WebQuest site is a great example
of a problem-centered learning unit. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/ChinaQuest.html
Teaching Computation as Problem Solving: An Exxon
Project http://www.math.uni.edu/mathed/Exxon.html
http://www.math.msu.edu/cmp/ProbTch.html
Problem-Centered Teaching: The Focus of Connected Mathematics Project
Teaching and Learning
http://cee.indiana.edu/turner/ProblemCentered.html
A series of commerical electronic field trips with teacher materials.
TECHNOLOGY
Artful
Minds provides educators with research, tips, resources, and web tours
that focus on the effects of electronic media on brain development, educating
the Net generation, educational reform and technology, digital learning, technologically
linking education and the arts, wired classrooms as student-centered learning
environments, web site evaluation tools, etc. It's at:
http://library.advanced.org/50072/
For Artful Minds links to eight web site evaluation instruments developed
by various professional organizations and educational institutions, go to:
http://library.advanced.org/50072/siteevaluation.htm
One of the best web resources evaluation instruments was developed at
the University of Georgia and can be found at: http://itech1.coe.uga.edu/faculty/gwilkinson/webeval.html
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Technology
and the New Professional Teacher:
Preparing for the 21st Century Classroom (1997)
http://www.ncate.org/projects/tech/TECH.HTM
Problem-Centered Teaching and Learning Team
Andrew M. Weaver, Ed.D, Professor and Head Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Deborah Lindsey, lead teacher for Lee County Schools
Deborah Barber, lead teacher for Auburn City Schools
John W. Saye, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Social Science Education
Kimberly C. Walls, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Music Education
Edna Brabham, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Reading
Susan Bannon, Ed.D., Director, Learning Resources Center
Owen Barnes, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Communication
Additions or corrections - email Deborah Barber, M.Ed., Graduate Assistant, Music Education
page created September 30, 1999
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