Abstract

Problem-based learning (PBL) is often promoted in response to the current need of offering authentic and effective professional education. Traditionally, PBL is used in face-to-face learning environments, with a facilitator guiding collaborative teams of students in solving a problem. This paper reports the use of PBL in a web-based dietetic instruction and how this approach promotes both problem-solving strategies and disciplinary knowledge bases and skills in student professionals. The content of students' discussions is analyzed, as is their performance and affective responses toward the web-based learning. From their final projects, students learning in PBL treatment performed better than students learning in control treatment (p < 0.000). More positive affective responses toward the use of assignment were also obtained from students in PBL treatment. Among 42 questionnaire items investigated, significant differences were obtained from 12 of them (p < 0.05).

Citation

Chan, k.C. & ChanLin, L.J. (2003). Enhancing Web-Based Dietetic Training through A PBL Design. In D. Lassner & C. McNaught (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2003--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1100-1101). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 6, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/13954/.

© 2003 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• Students