Thursday, May 22, 2025
Falmouth Memorial Library
Falmouth, Maine
10:00 – 4:00
Register by April 22 for reduced price.
Participants’ Comments
PBL’s efficacy in higher education
Individually and in collaboration, you will be engaged, throughout, in planning a unit for students.
“Large numbers of college students are leaving college with a very weak grasp of how to use evidence or build a well-supported argument.” p.47 (Schneider, 2017)
Schneider, C. G. (2017). Making inquiry learning our top priority: Why we must and how we can. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 1(1), 45-54
College students find they are intellectually challenged and their analytical and problem-solving skills, creativity, and independent learning are strengthened when they generate questions about a topic, develop answers by collecting, analyzing and synthesizing data, communicate their findings and self-assess their process and results.
Spronken-Smith, R., & Walker, R. (2010). Can inquiry-based learning strengthen the links between teaching and disciplinary research? Studies in Higher Education, 35(6), 723-40.
Archer-Kuhn, B., Lee, Y., Finnessey, S., & Liu, J. (2020). Inquiry-based learning as a facilitator to student engagement in undergraduate and graduate social work programs. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 8(1), 187–207.
Darling-Hammond, L. (2008). Powerful learning: What we know about teaching for understanding. Jossey-Bass.
With individual reflections, collegial collaboration, videos of PBL-in-action, examples from the facilitator’s undergraduate and graduate teaching, interactive activities, readings, slides, and a Google Drive full of resources – step-by-step you outline a high quality PBL unit.
Receive:
PBL draft you plan
Peer feedback
PBL Planning Checklist
New understandings about problem-based and project-based
learning’s features and implementation.
Abundance of implementation resources.
Lengthy list of PBL and inquiry learningn research sources.
Lunch
Workshop Completion Certificate
Invitation to cost-free, online reunion
PBL connects inquiry to course academic objectives and skills. It is engaging, and it provides the structure inquiry learning requires.
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
$190 by April 22
$218 after April 22
REGISTER with $28 price reduction.
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
