When I first became interested in PBL as a vehicle for English Language Teaching it also became clear that the affordances of digital technologies would be the perfect vehicle for delivering cour...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2022/01/26/pbl-post-covid-education/
Some thoughts on PBL after a day of team building activities with my colleagues. In my mind I was Indiana Jones (in The Last Crusade) standing on the ledge, waiting to take the step onto the invi...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/indiana-jones-and-the-project-based-learning/
It is all very well and nice to have a component such as PBL as part of the curriculum. However, if the learners do not learn as a result then there is little point in putting time and effort int...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/pbl-season-1-what-did-they-learn/
In April 2015 I gave a presentation at the IATEFL in Manchester. I am very happy that my summary of the presentation has been published in the conference proceedings. I have included the report i...
I am extremely proud to be involved in the latest book in the Sabancı University, School of Languages publication Learner Development. A Practical Guide to English Language Learner Developmen...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/sabanci-university-book-learner-development/
Just like the arrival of the proverbial London bus, not one but two books landed on my desk this month. Both of them containing my contributions, each with a PBL focus. The first to arrive w...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/february-a-month-on-the-page/
This is a 3 to 4 minute read. I have written quite a bit about our PBL experience without actually giving much information about the content and organisation of the course. In this post I will pr...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/pbl-season-one-the-course-structure/
This is a 5-6 minute read. The context I teach in the School of Languages at Sabancı University where we prepare learners for their English language medium undergraduate studies. We teach Englis...
This is a 3 to 4 minute read. Our first Project Based Learning cycle is now complete, fourteen weeks of PBL integrated into our upper level syllabus (my last post here was when we had just begun)...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/pbl-season-one-what-they-said/
This is a 1 minute read and a 12 mins 5 seconds view. In spring 2014 Thom Markham visited Sabancı University School of Languages to advise us on the implementation of PBL. While he was with u...
https://beginswithaproblem.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/httpwww-thommarkham-com/