Welcome to PBL and digitalisation – near-future models of PBL


Description: This course will offer a research-based introduction to Problem Based Learning and digitalisation. It will discuss how the current international focus on digitalisation of education may affect PBL-models, and it will present ‘near-future models’ of PBL derived from the research project (PBL future). These will be used as a backdrop to discuss how digital technologies could enable transformative and innovative ways of organizing PBL. The course will then present Networked Learning as an area of research particularly relevant for digital PBL, and it will present theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches enabling participants to design and organize PBL in ways that explore and harness the opportunities offered by digital technologies. 

The course will explore blended and hybrid format as part of its design. Participants are invited to work with an educational challenge or a problem and transform this into a novel PBL-design. It can be their own teaching practice. As part of the evaluation, participants will present this design to the other participants.

Organizer: Thomas Ryberg

Lecturers: Thomas Ryberg, Lykke Brogaard Bertel, Anette Kolmos

ECTS: 3

Time:  16-17 December 2021

Place: AAU, Rendsburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg, room Rbg 14 3.429

Number of seats: 20

Deadline:  25 November 2021


Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.