Nytt nummer av Högre utbildning: Tema PBL

Tidskriften Högre Utbildnings senaste nummer fokuserar på problembaserat lärande (PBL). Följande artiklar ingår:

• New contribution to PBL? Anette Kolmos 
• Problembaseret læring og forumspil som motiverende læringsmetoder og fælles samarbejdsform i interprofessionel undervisning. Bodil Winther Hansen, Camusa Hatt 
• Warming up for PBL: a course in mathematical modelling and problem solving for engineering students. Dag Wedelin, Tom Adawi 
• Is PBL really a better way to teach and learn? Jakob Donnér, Gudrun Edgren 
• Courses for tutors in problem-based learning. Current challenges at four Swedish universities. Helen Setterud, Madelaine Johansson, Gudrun Edgren, Gunilla Amnér, Elisabet Persson, Ulrika Segersten, Lars Uhlin, Marie Lidskog 

I inledningsartikeln hoppas Anette Kolmos att detta temanummer väcker en djupare diskussion om PBL i Sverige och studentcentrerat lärande i stort.

- However, this issue could create a new start by re-activating debates on student centeredness and how to develop a learning philosophy that underpins this goal. It could be beneficial to cross medicine/health, social science, humanities, science, and technical subjects to extract and conceptualize the core learning principles. What matters is how the learning process meets students’ cognitive and emotional pre-requisites and transforms this into relevant and future-oriented knowledge, skills, and competences.

Läs det senaste numret (Vol  5, nr 1, 2015)