Thursday, May 22, 2025
Falmouth Memorial Library
Falmouth, Maine
10:00 – 4:00
Participants’ Comments
PBL’s efficacy in higher education
This is a hands-on workshop. You will be engaged, individually, and in peer collaboration, planning a unit that involves inquiry and enhances it with features of problem-based learning and project-based learning.
PBL connects inquiry to course academic objectives and skills. It is engaging, and it provides the structure inquiry learning requires.
Receive:
Draft unit plan
Peer feedback
Planning Checklist
New understandings about problem-based and project-based
learning’s features and implementation.
Abundance of implementation resources.
Inquiry learning research references
Lunch
Workshop Completion Certificate
Invitation to cost-free, online reunion
For your in-person, hybrid, synchronous or asynchronous online class.
Falmouth Memorial Library is 11 minutes from downtown Portland. We will be a maximum of 12 participants in a spacious room.
Workshop Facilitator
Lee Anna Stirling, EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University is President/Executive Director,
For Deeper Learning (nonprofit); Editor-in-Chief, Deeper Learning Journal of Practice; and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Thomas College.
Lee Anna Stirling’s inquiry learning knowledge draws from graduate and college teaching experience, providing inquiry learning and project-based learning. Lee Anna Stirling’s inquiry learning and PBL expertise also is derived from her work with hundreds of early childhood-graduate level educators, as a Problem-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning graduate education instructor, workshop facilitator, and extensive research.
REGISTER $218
For further information contact For Deeper Learning
info@fordeeperlearning.org
or 207-873-2458
Higher Education PBL
–“Once the students are completely excited about this project, I tell them, here, take a look at this book. It may actually help you with your project.” – Eric Mazur, Physics Professor, Harvard University
