Instructor
Bernie Dodge, PhD
Office: NE-288 | Blog
bdodge@mail.sdsu.edu

Using Problem-Based Learning
to Enhance Decision-Making Skills

What are the thinking skills that underlie effective decision-making? How can you create scenarios that require and develop that kind of thinking? How do you guide and evaluate learner performance in PBL environments? The techniques in this course are applicable to learners from elementary grades through grad school and corporate training.
Meets 2/9 & 2/23 Schedule # 10754.

Overview

two directional arrow This course is designed to be practical, current, interesting, empowering and thought-provoking. It is built around active learning and collaborative thinking. When we're done, you'll have created a problem-based lesson that provides a context for enhancing the decision-making skills of your learners.

Audience

This course is targeted at teachers at the K-12 and college levels as well as others involved in the training of adults.

Learning Outcomes

In this course you will learn how to:

distinguish between problem-based learning, and project-based learning, and describe how they differ from traditional teaching;
design a problem-based lesson;
teach decision-making skills in the context of authentic problems.