Facilitating Problem-Based Learning

Interest in problem-based learning continues to flourish worldwide; however, there have been relatively few resources to help readers examine the complex issues relating to facilitating its implementation of problem-based learning and the ongoing development of staff, students and the curriculum.

Facilitating Problem-Based Learning explores a broad range of issues about facilitation, in particular: understandings of facilitation that have emerged from the author’s recent re-search and ways of equipping and supporting staff in terrestrial and virtual contexts. It also questions how students are assessed and suggests ways of preventing plagiarism in problem-based learning.

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Higher Education Research at Coventry University where she is Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Health. She first began researching problem-based learning in 1987 and over the last ten years has consulted widely on problem-based learning in the UK and overseas.