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Publication Date: 2020-Sep
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The Role of Interdisciplinarity in Bringing PBL to Traditional Universities: Opportunities and Challenges on the Organizational, Team and Individual Level
Braßler, Mirjam
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, v14 n2 Sep 2020
Problem-based learning (PBL) has emerged as a suitable approach to shift from teacher-centered to learner-centered education. However, higher education institutions (HEIs) experience obstacles stemming from lecturers' and students' reservations as well as organizational challenges. Following action research, the author reflects on her implementation of interdisciplinary PBL within one exemplar case study to explore opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinarity in the transition toward a PBL curriculum in a traditional HEI. At the organizational level, interdisciplinarity facilitates collective knowledge creation about PBL by providing interdisciplinary learning spaces and in-house training. At the team level, lecturers as well as students can collectively learn about PBL. At the individual level, interdisciplinary student-to-student and lecturer-to-lecturer learning can enhance personal knowledge about PBL. Monodisciplinary structures, discipline-based differences in teaching and knowledge traditions, as well as individual prejudices are sources of challenges associated with interdisciplinarity in organizational learning.
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Universities, College Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Centered Learning, Sustainability, Organizational Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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