Sharing Models and Research to Build Leadership in Program Improvement

This presentation, created by Louse Yarnall of SRI International, provides an overview of how support was provided for classroom implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) in a STEM workforce course. "Educators find PBL challenging to implement because it requires tradeoffs around classroom activities and content coverage and different approaches to faculty preparation and student engagement. SRI designed an online community architecture that permits faculty from small departments in different community colleges to share ideas about how to integrate PBL into their classrooms."

The presentation includes the following sections: Presentation Goals, Presentation Overview, Research and Faculty Inquiry, Background, Workshops and Web-based community, Faculty engagement in Experience, Teaching Bioinformatics and Biotechnology: Some Challenges, Scenario-Based Learning (SBL): A Faculty perspective, SBL Workshop Support, Two courses compared, and more.