Tariqy's List: PBL

Problem based learning   has several distinct characteristics which may be identified and utilized   in designing such curriculum. These are:  

 
1. Use of real world problems - problems are relevant and contextual.   It is in the process of struggling with actual problems that students   learn content and critical thinking skills.
 
2. Reliance on problems   to drive the curriculum - the problems do not test skills; they assist   in development of the skills themselves.
 
3. The problems are   truly ill-structured - there is not meant to be one solution, and as   new information is gathered in a reiterative process, perception of   the problem, and thus the solution, changes.