The PBCL approach builds on more than three decades of research by leading experts in learning and cognition. John Bransford, professor at the University of Washington, is one of the educators whose work underlies PBCL. In this video, he and others, including PBCL developers Jim Johnson and Ruth Loring, and school administrator Ellen Weed, discuss the fundamentals of PBCL.
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Here is a short list of relevant publications describing some of the fundamental ideas that have been incorporated into PBCL.
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (Expanded Edition). Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
(John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, eds.)
Understanding by Design (Expanded 2nd Edition).
Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005.
(Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe)
"Situated cognition and the culture of learning." Educational Researcher, 18(1), (1989), pp. 32—42.
(J. S. Brown, A. Collins, and P. Duguid)
"Designing constructivist learning environments." Instructional-Design Theories and Models: A New Paradigm of Instructional Technology, Volume 2. Charles M. Reigeluth, ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983.
(David Jonassen)
The Power of Problem-Based Learning: A Practical "How To" for Teaching Undergraduate Courses in Any Discipline. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2001.
(Barbara J. Duch, Susan E. Groh, and Deborah E. Allen)
Case-Based Reasoning. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1993.
(Janet Kolodner)
"Educational implications of analogy: A view from case-based reasoning." American Psychologist, 52(1), (1997), pp. 57—66.
(J. L. Kolodner)