Thursday, May 22, 2025
Falmouth Memorial Library
Falmouth, Maine
10:00 – 4:00
Register by April 22 for reduced price, $190
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 FacilitatorLee Anna Stirling, EdD (Teachers College, Columbia University) has provided problem-based learning and project-based learning for liberal arts undergraduate students and graduate education students and has worked with hundreds of educators as they develop high quality PBL for their students. Lee Anna Stirling can be reached at info@fordeeperlearning.org.
$190 by April 22
$218 after April 22
REGISTER
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

