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Investigating PBL: A Webquest

It's around 12:30pm on June 13, 1996, and participants at the CSU Faculty Development Institute on Distributed Course Delivery for Problem Based Learning (PBL) have been hard at work constructing their answers to a series of questions about PBL. Here's what it looked like.

The PBL WebQuest began with a keynote address by Dr. Bernie Dodge on Active Learning on the World Wide Web. Then campus teams quickly formed, and deployed themselves to various resources.

Meanwhile, downstairs in NE 71, the SDSU College of Education's new "Smart Classroom," some team members reviewed examples of multimedia PBL on videodisc and CD-ROM, including Vanderbilt University's Jasper Woodbury and Discovery CD's Science Slueths.

On the floor between, in NE 173, other team members poured over selected journal articles and books on PBL.

Those who weren't otherwise occupied were reading Web pages, trying to make sense of the different implementations of PBL and the philosophy that underlies its design.

By around 11:30am, it was time to reconvene the groups to teach each other what they had learned. With one person per group acting as typist, the groups worked together to answer the questions they were given.

The WebQuest was over at 12:30, and the groups completed their reports. No time to polish their writing or to express everything they had learned, but they managed to get a lot done in the time they had. After lunch, they'll critique each other's reports and resolve any misconceptions and uncertainties they have on the topic.

Here are their reports:

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	The PBL WebQuest began with a keynote address by Dr. Bernie Dodge on Active Learning on the World Wide Web. Then campus teams quickly formed, and deployed themselves to various resources.
	Meanwhile, downstairs in NE 71, the SDSU College of Education's new "Smart Classroom," some team members reviewed examples of multimedia PBL on videodisc and CD-ROM, including Vanderbilt University's Jasper Woodbury and Discovery CD's Science Slueths.
	On the floor between, in NE 173, other team members poured over selected journal articles and books on PBL.
	Those who weren't otherwise occupied were reading Web pages, trying to make sense of the different implementations of PBL and the philosophy that underlies its design.
	By around 11:30am, it was time to reconvene the groups to teach each other what they had learned. With one person per group acting as typist, the groups worked together to answer the questions they were given.