Building Knowledge: Implementing PBL and Using Mobile Apps as an Approach to Learning

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Author(s): Samuel B. Fee (Washington and Jefferson College, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 14
Source title: Academic Knowledge Construction and Multimodal Curriculum Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Douglas J. Loveless (James Madison University, USA), Bryant Griffith (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA), Margaret E. Bérci (College of Staten Island-CUNY, USA), Evan Ortlieb (Monash University, Australia)and Pamela M. Sullivan (James Madison University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4797-8.ch009

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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This chapter argues that the best learning occurs as knowledge is constructed, challenging the assumption that learning occurs mainly when knowledge is gathered and absorbed. This chapter thus builds contrasts between a constructivist epistemology and other approaches toward learning that do not seek the intentional construction of knowledge. Expanding on the current discourse regarding constructivist epistemology, this chapter considers more thoroughly problem-based learning as a pedagogical approach. The chapter begins and concludes with a preliminary study that illustrates how implementing a mobile application into a problem-based learning approach has enhanced learning for students collecting field data for biology and environmental studies research, as well as for students developing the application. This example illuminates a viable approach to translating educational theory into praxis.

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