This week’s question is: What are the differences between Project-Based, Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning? In Part One, guest responses came from educators Suzie Boss, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Steven ...

During that decade, McMaster University pioneered the problem-based learning approach with its medical students. “We think they’re two sides of the same coin,” Larmer says of project- and ...

Research on one program providing resources for teachers using project-based learning suggests it might help with problem-solving.

According to an international team of educators, active learning methods, such as problem-based learning, project-based learning, and challenge-based learning are necessary to provide engineering ...

Two major studies demonstrate the effectiveness of problem-based learning and show that students, parents and teachers prefer such immersive learning techniques.

Education experts are encouraging schools to consider problem-based learning (PBL) in a move to improve engagement and creativity among high school students. New research demonstrates how hands-on ...

Project-based learning advocates are confident that it can succeed in Philadelphia. Less certain, however, is whether its adoption can push educators, students and families to re-examine assumptions ...

Project-based learning gets students out of the classroom to solve real-life, open-ended problems. At WPI, students complete two projects, worth nine credit hours each: one addressing an ...

Project-based learning continues to be misinterpreted as a single teaching strategy rather than as a set of design principles that allow us to introduce the philosophy of inquiry into education in an ...

One survey of undergraduate students who took a project-based learning course found that some found the challenge overwhelming.