Fourth Issue of the Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education

Abstract

We are pleased to introduce the fourth issue of the Journal of Problem Based Learning in
Higher Education. Current issue is composed of five research papers and two PBL cases.
These address different aspects of PBL in higher education as and represent an international
experiences and knowledge with contributions from Brazil, Denmark, Germany and Morocco.
The first three papers and the two cases touch upon the role of the teacher in facilitating
problem based learning processes. These papers address the complex questions of how
teachers can actually implement and teach PBL to students. The fourth paper reports on
students‟ attitudes towards different types of exams (e.g. individual exams and group exams)
in two engineering programs at Aalborg University. The fifth paper compares three different
learning designs in an introductory computer science course on programming. The current
issue explores a diverse set of aspects related to research in Problem Based Learning: teachers
and supervisors roles, implementation of PBL curricular, assessment formats supporting PBL
and new advances in combining technology and PBL.