Meng Nanxi, Dong Yan, Roehrs Dorian, Luan Lin
Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of North Texas, Denton, TX USA.
Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Haidian District, Yanbo Building, No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Beijing, 100875 People's Republic of China.
Educ Technol Res Dev. 2023 Mar 28:1-29. doi: 10.1007/s11423-023-10202-7.
Project-based learning (PBL) has been identified as an effective pedagogy for instructors to help students to learn interdisciplinary knowledge, problem-solving skills, modes of thinking, and collaborative practices through solving problems in a real-world context. However, previous studies reported that instructors from K-12 to tertiary learning environments found it challenging to implement such a pedagogy for various reasons. The emergence of PBL E-learning platforms in the recent decade has attracted increasing interest in adoption and seems to provide a solution to tackle the difficulties in PBL implementation. Yet little is known about designing these platforms and how they facilitate the PBL learning process and management. In the current study, we conducted a multiple case survey study on 16 PBL learning platforms in English and Chinese, collected data on their features and functions, categorized them according to their services provided, and analyzed how they tackle the implementation challenges. Additionally, we identified four trends in PBL development as pedagogy, the skills, and competence required for teachers and students to successfully carry out PBL via e-learning platforms and provide suggestions to improve and refine the platform design for educational technologists and related stakeholders. The limitations of this study and the future research direction are included.
基于项目的学习（PBL）已被确认为一种有效的教学方法，教师可以通过让学生在现实世界的情境中解决问题，帮助他们学习跨学科知识、解决问题的技能、思维模式和协作实践。然而，先前的研究报告称，从K-12到高等教育学习环境的教师发现，由于各种原因，实施这种教学方法具有挑战性。近十年来，PBL电子学习平台的出现引起了越来越多的采用兴趣，似乎为解决PBL实施中的困难提供了一种解决方案。然而，对于这些平台的设计以及它们如何促进PBL学习过程和管理，人们知之甚少。在本研究中，我们对16个中英文PBL学习平台进行了多案例调查研究，收集了它们的特征和功能数据，根据它们提供的服务对其进行了分类，并分析了它们如何应对实施挑战。此外，我们确定了PBL发展作为教学法的四个趋势，以及教师和学生通过电子学习平台成功开展PBL所需的技能和能力，并为教育技术专家和相关利益相关者提供改进和完善平台设计的建议。本研究的局限性和未来研究方向也包括在内。
