The courses will be mainly taught using Problem Based Learning methods. This is usually abbreviated as PBL.
The original short version of this page is still available as well.
This method, PBL, was originally developed for medical schools and has steadily spread to many areas during the last thirty years. It makes sense seen from research in psychology and cognition; existing knowledge is activated, the learning is made with hooks to relevant scenarios and the students are made to elaborate with their acquired knowledge.
PBL trains for life long learning since the learning-context is stronger than in traditional courses, and the learning is therefore less vulnerable for the weakening of episodic memory with age. The method also trains to work in groups and in leading small groups. The process is very similar to research; an education through PBL therefore leads naturally into an activity of research.
The PBL-group should be 5-8 people since smaller groups lack a sufficient amount of ideas and suggestions, and larger groups result in that some members become inactive. The teacher closely follows the meetings with great attention, but in the background.
Each PBL-cycle (roughly 1.5 credits) follows the seven steps structure in solving the scenario problem which is presented in a first meeting of about two hours.
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