AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION RESULTING IN THE USE OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING TO DELIVER COMMUNITY OUTREACH SOLUTIONS

Abstract:

The University of Leicester, UK has been supporting the Catholic University of Cuenca (UCACUE) in Ecuador to deliver its vision of ensuring that every student on every course is exposed to an authentic problem-based learning (PBL) experience. By doing so, it is hoped that students gain a deeper understanding of their subject while also developing and using high level research, professional, and 21st Century skills to solve real community, regional, or national health, environmental, societal, business, or economic problems. The project’s primary object was the training of 70 core academic staff, composed of teams representing departments from all 8 faculties of UCACUE . The resulting capacity building programme has required the participants to participate in a series of 5-day workshops designed to develop their expertise in the application of two structured models of PBL. Based on a four-stage model and a …

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2019

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