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Targeting Transfer in a STELLAR PBL Course for Pre-Service Teachers
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Sharon J. Derry; Alan Bitterman; Natalie Hatrak
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning Vol. 3, No. 2 (2009) pp. 24–42
Helping students in the professions apply conceptual ideas to the problems of practice is a key goal of problem-based learning (PBL). Because PBL is organized around small, collaborative groups, scaling up PBL to large, heterogeneous classes poses...
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Cognitive Transfer Revisited: Can We Exploit New Media to Solve Old Problems on a Large Scale?
Sharon J. Derry; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Anandi Nagarajan; Ellina Chernobilsky; Brian D. Beitzel
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 35, No. 2 (2006) pp. 145–162
The work we report in this special issue attempted to exploit the power of technology and cognitive theory to help make conceptual systems taught in large college courses truly useful in students' future lives. Facing evidence that traditional...
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Cracking the Resource Nut with Distributed Problem-Based Learning in Secondary Teacher Education
Constance A. Steinkuehler; Sharon J. Derry; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Matt DelMarcelle
Distance Education Vol. 23, No. 1 (2002) pp. 23–39
Discusses the implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) in traditional large undergraduate courses and describes the STEP PBL system, a Web-based system that supports teaching assistants in their work as PBL tutors and creates a viable model...