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A Platform for Developing and Maintaining Competences in PBL Supervision

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One of the emerging challenges in academia is that of developing and maintaining teaching qualifications in a setting where teaching staff is often temporary and with diverse backgrounds. At Aalborg University, project-organized problem-based learning is at the heart of all degree programmes and supervision within this format has particular challenges. We propose a crowdsourcing approach to developing teaching competence within this format. PBL Exchange is a question/answer-based platform that is currently being rolled out to help teaching staff share and discuss their experiences as project supervisors.

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The work on PBL Exchange described here is funded by an Aalborg University grant for developing PBL practice.

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  1. Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Dorina Gnaur

  2. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Hans Hüttel

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  1. National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Tien-Chi Huang

  2. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Rynson Lau

  3. Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  4. University of Caen Normandie, Caen, France

    Marc Spaniol

  5. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Chun-Hung Yuen

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Gnaur, D., Hüttel, H. (2017). A Platform for Developing and Maintaining Competences in PBL Supervision. In: Huang, TC., Lau, R., Huang, YM., Spaniol, M., Yuen, CH. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71084-6_33

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