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Agile PBL and the Next Generation of Learners

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This chapter explores the characteristics of a new generation of students and the idea of twenty-first-century skills. The particular emphasis here is how the two are, or should be, aligned and how an agile PBL provides opportunities to both draw on skills that a new generation of learners brings to the universities and empower these learners with the skills and attitudes they need to succeed upon graduation. An agile PBL ecology for learning allows us not only to recognise the myriad of factors, elements and layers that impact on learning but also to respond to these in both a responsive and proactive way, so that the learning environment is optimised for everyone involved.

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  1. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

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  2. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Henk Huijser

  3. Batchelor Institute, Batchelor, NT, Australia

    Henk Huijser

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Kek, M.Y.C.A., Huijser, H. (2017). Agile PBL and the Next Generation of Learners. In: Problem-based Learning into the Future. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2454-2_3

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