Project Based
Learning
This strategy is implicit in various
others described here. PBL is a way
to make learning meaningful and
real. Instead of “learning” material
out of textbooks, students work in
teams to tackle real-world problems.
Often, students will collaborate with
peers across the world on global
projects, forge meaningful
relationships and build virtual
communities of learners in the
process. There are many
advantages to PBL as a way to
promote learning. Among them:
• Develops collaboration skills;
• Deals with real-world problems
so students can make important
connections between what theylearn in school and its relevance
to the world outside school;
• Results in a deeper and more
holistic understanding of the
subject being studied;
• Provides the means to integrate
skills in various disciplines in
much the same way that
problems in the real world need
a multi-faceted approach to
solving them;
• Provides a good vehicle for
delivering multidisciplinary
curricula.