Problem-based learning in natural resource management Cloud
created by: The Cloudworks Team 29 July 2008 Students can learn
from trying to solve realistically messy and ill-defined
problems, given sufficient resources, scaffolding and support.
In this course, students undertake three major four-week
activities, in each of which they are given a situation or
problem, relating to the curriculum being taught at that time,
and they have to come up with an answer or solution. Their work
is guided by scaffolding referred to as “The Approach”. This
breaks down the process into stages such as identifying relevant
knowledge and experience in the group and generating relevant
questions for members of their small working group – or the
teacher – to answer before the next class. (External students
collaborate using an asynchronous bulletin board.) Being senior
undergraduates or postgraduates, students are expected to
conduct independent research and locate their own resources, in
addition to those to which they are direc