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Problem-Based Learning (PBL) seeks to enhance student involvement in the learning process, the quality of the learning experience and the attainment of defined learning outcomes. PBL assumes that students learn most effectively if their learning aims at the resolution of a problem and if this occurs in cooperative small group environments. In a PBL setting, students are presented with a “problem” which they seek to resolve during several group sessions interspersed with individual research and learning activities. As PBL students work in small groups supervised by trained tutors, it is difficult to introduce it into the lecture component of a large undergraduate module comprising several hundred students. The aim of the project was to ascertain how PBL could instead be incorporated into the module’s tutorial component with relatively modest additional resource requirements.
A University College Dublin project funded through the 2026 SATLE call.
It is widely accepted that most people have access to video/audio recording facilities on cameras and mobile phones. However, very few untrained people have the knowledge or skills to create bite size, clear, coherent, engaging learning materials from such devices. These fundamental skills are critical to development of a large variety of Digital Media Learning Resources including Video & complex 3D Animation.
