Problem-based
learning - advantages and disadvantagesAdvantages:
- Active process
- The way we make decisions anyway
- Increases tolerance of uncertainty
- Stimulates self-learning naturally
- Positively aids modelling
- Trainee-directed/trainer-monitored
- Increases motivation
- Encourages "experience" > "intuition"
Disadvantages:
- Other teaching methods are useful too!
- Need good tutorial skills
- Takes longer
- Needs planning