Stephen Hay wrote:
Joseph's and John's words reminded me of a course I once did with the World Health Organisation. Amazingly, I have the monograph in front of me, "Educational Handbook for Health Personnel", J-J. Guilbert, 1992.
Googling that title yields the text itself :-) with a good definition / description of Problem Based Learning. http://healthlibrary.com/reading/education/h0208e.13.html
These types of workshops tend to start slowly - the biggest hurdle is often the participants overcoming their desire to be told what to do -
And the teacher's desire to tell..
but once they get going it is a real pleasure to behold...
Matches my experience exactly. jlz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members