UKCLE problem-based learning working group
The group aimed to:
- explore and compare how law teachers are currently using PBL
- introduce law teachers to the key concepts and educational rationale behind PBL
- provide examples of PBL in practice drawing on other disciplines
- identify future plans and a programme of support events
It considered the following questions:
- is there a clear link between the aims of problem-based learning and the aims of legal education (to include both undergraduate and vocational programmes)?
- how is PBL being used in legal education at the moment and for what purposes (as a tool to support the development of key skills or as a more generic prompt for learning)?
- how is PBL felt and experienced by staff and students?
- what aspects of the law benchmarks relate to PBL, and how can PBL be used to support the implementation and facilitation of the requirements of the benchmark statements?
- what are the main barriers to implementing PBL?
- what might assessment frameworks for PBL look like?
- how can the use of PBL on other professional programmes be transferred and/or adapted for use in legal education?
- how can the working group and UKCLE best support the legal education community in developing PBL?
A half day workshop to launch the working group was held on 23 April 2002, with a second workshop held at the University of East Anglia on 24 October 2003.
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