Pbl - What It Is!!!!

[Dehydrated Water]

Thought this would be useful for those of you still waiting for Glasgow interviews and those who are applying next year:

THE PROCESS OF PBL AT GLASGOW

1. nominate a scribe (to put all info on a white board) and a chairperson (to chair, obviously).

2. everyone is handed out the same passage eg. John falls of his bike and hurts his knee. Usually a nice little story

3. The chairperson reads the passage

4. Any words that are not understood are looked up in a dictionary.

5. The group thinks of main points that come from the passage, the scribe writes them on the board.

6. The group then brainstorm (think of everything they know relating to the chosen main point) and the scribe writes it on the white board

7. The group together decide on questions that should be answered for the feedback session.

8. The group evaluate the process

feedback session

1. The group work through each question and the scribe writes up all information. Questions are asked concerning missed information and things that people didn't pick up on.

2. The group evalutate the feedback process, where they found information etc.




Each PBL session lasts 2 hours, usually one hour for feedback, followed by one hour for the next PBL.

And there is usually 3/4 days between PBL sessions.

[BarbaraJ]

I know this is kind of an old post but here goes anyway -

Glasgow sounds really good, but I find it easier to learn from lectures. Is there enough lecture-based learning at Glasgow?

Thanks
Babz
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[Stephen]

The answer to that is the cause of many debates and arguments. Some say yes there are enough lectures and some say there aren't. personally i think that there could be more lectures, but i really enjoy the course as it is and i think i learn best from pbl. Others think that there are enough lectures though. i think that in first year since there aren't really that many lectures you feel a bit lost, but you need to have the confidence to work at the topic and know which books to look at. the lectures only back up what you'll learn yourself in pbl anyway.

[Bobalina_Jeffrey_Jim]

Personally I think PBL would be better for me because I pick things up better when I find them out for myself but I heard someone saying you might be asked about previous experience of PBL. Can someone help cos I'm completely stumped here?

[elliottsimpson]

I heard someone saying you might be asked about previous experience of PBL. Can someone help cos I'm completely stumped here?
You could be asked about student centred learning, which is more general - work done on your own for D of E award, AH projects, etc combined with experience of team work should be good preparation for PBL.

[Hayley]

I personally enjoy PBL and find it a good way to learn. We do get regular lectures but, as Stephen said, these do generally either a. consolidate what you've already learned or b. go beyond the curriculum and are really just for interest. I'd say, in 2nd year at any rate, the FRS sessions (that would be our labs) are much more useful.

However, if you feel that you would prefer lecture-based to PBL, then GLasgow maybe wouldn't be the best course for you.

I think if that's an important factor to you in making your choice, then you should find out as much as you can about each Uni's course and exactly how it works. They are all very different and all involve both PBL and lectures, just to varying degrees.

Hope that helps. :D

Hayley :chute:

[sugar2512]

Glasgow sounds really good, but I find it easier to learn from lectures. Is there enough lecture-based learning at Glasgow?

well ive been here for about 6 weeks now, at first i worried that maybe a lecture based might have been better for me.....but now im used to the pbl its getting easier. I can honestly say that from the lectures that ive been to at glasgow if i had to suffer that day in/ day out and it was the main teaching method i would never learn anything.

I think the lectures are ok to give u summaries n clarify bits n pieces.....but i tend to find that sitting there for 2hrs i really dont take anything in, my mind usually wanders after listening to the lecturer for about 10 mins:o

[Devlinator]

And then they go and change it in third year-just when you are in a nice little rut of actually knowing what you are doing!