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Using Text Mining to Elucidate Mental Models of Problem Spaces for Ill-Structured Problems
Constructing a consensus problem space from extensive qualitative data for an ill-structured real-life problem and expressing the result to a broader audience is challenging. To effectively communicate a compl...
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Systems Thinking and Modeling: From Butterfly Posture to Artificial Intelligence
One hundred years ago, Paul Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy independently proposed that living organisms interact with their environment through systems. In the century that has followed, systems thinking and...
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The Other Side of the Promise: Some Precautions for Technology-Based Education
Riding on the wings of digital technology and the internet, the way knowledge is recorded, distributed, communicated, and constructed has fundamentally reshaped how education is conducted. This innovation has ...
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The Effects of Microlearning: A Sco** Review
Microlearning has gained popularity in both the training industry and professional studies disciplines over the last several years. While substantial information exists in industry articles and commentaries on...
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In-Service Teachers’ Conception of Creativity and Its Relation with Technology: A Perspective from Thailand
Recognizing its importance, most countries have prioritized creative thinking as a critical ability that students need to develop before they enter the workforce. Thailand is no exception. For teachers to crea...
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Problem-Based Learning in College Science
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method that reflects active learning and constructivist philosophy. It incorporates multiple instructional strategies to help students acquire and apply content...
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A review to identify key perspectives in PBL meta-analyses and reviews: trends, gaps and future research directions
In the past 50 years, the original McMaster PBL model has been implemented, experimented, revised, and modified, and is still evolving. Yet, the development of PBL is not a series of success stories, but rathe...
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The role of subject presence type on student motivation in a PBL learning environment
Students have been observed as underprepared or skip** steps during the problem-based learning (PBL) process due to fatigue or low motivation, potentially creating a barrier for effective learning. One way t...
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Cultivating creative problem solvers: the PBL style
After decades of research, we now know that creativity is a multidimensional construct that involves variables from the domains of personality, environment, and cognition. A construct with such level of comple...
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Problem-Based Learning: Conception, Practice, and Future
Originally conceived to respond to the failure of traditional lecture-based methods in preparing medical students readily for clinical practice, problem-based learning (PBL) has made an inerasable mark in the ...
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The Relationships Between Problem Design and Learning Process in Problem-Based Learning Environments: Two Cases
Some researchers have argued that the design of problems used in a Problem-based Learning (PBL) course or curriculum could have an impact on student learning cognitively or psychologically, such as students’ s...
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Team-based complex problem solving: a collective cognition perspective
Today, much problem solving is performed by teams, rather than individuals. The complexity of these problems has exceeded the cognitive capacity of any individual and requires a team of members to solve them. ...
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Theory to reality: a few issues in implementing problem-based learning
The success of an intervention depends not only upon its theoretical soundness, but also on proper implementation that reflects the guidelines derived from its theoretical conception. Debates surrounding the e...
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Learning to Troubleshoot: A New Theory-Based Design Architecture
Troubleshooting is a common form of problem solving. Technicians (e.g., automotive mechanics, electricians) and professionals (physician, therapists, ombudspersons) diagnose faulty systems and take direct, cor...
