Goals and Strategies of a Problem-based Learning Facilitator

2006

192 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper describes an analysis of facilitation of a student-centered problem-based learning group. The focus of this analysis was to understand the goals and strategies of an expert facilitator in support of collaborative learning. This was accomplished through interaction analysis using video data and stimulated recall to examine two PBL group meetings. In this paper, we examine how specific strategies were used to support the PBL goals of help ing students construct causal explanations, reason effectively, and become self-directed learners while maintaining a student-centered learning process. Being able to articulate these strategies is an important step in helping others learn the art of PBL facilitation.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7192e2ac856d067481ded1f66fa49b287b090faa

Citations in the corpus

• Metacognition, Self Regulation, and Self-regulated Learning: A Rose by any other Name? (2008, unknown): “the teacher facilitates and guides the learning process by asking open-ended general questions that encourage students to think about what they have done and why ( Hmelo-Silver and Barrows 2006; Lajoie et al. 2001).”