Abstract
One of the emerging challenges in academia is that of developing and maintaining teaching qualifications in a setting where teaching staff is often temporary and with diverse backgrounds. At Aalborg University, project-organized problem-based learning is at the heart of all degree programmes and supervision within this format has particular challenges. We propose a crowdsourcing approach to developing teaching competence within this format. PBL Exchange is a question/answer-based platform that is currently being rolled out to help teaching staff share and discuss their experiences as project supervisors.
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- Problem-based Learning (PBL)
- Project Supervisor
- Aalborg University
- Maintaining Teaching Qualifications
- Crowdsourcing Approach
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The work on PBL Exchange described here is funded by an Aalborg University grant for developing PBL practice.
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Gnaur, D., Hüttel, H. (2017). A Platform for Developing and Maintaining Competences in PBL Supervision. In: Huang, TC., Lau, R., Huang, YM., Spaniol, M., Yuen, CH. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71084-6_33
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