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28 June 2023 The PBL projects: genesis and evolution
Nicholas Massa, Judy Donnelly
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Proceedings Volume 12723, Seventeenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2023; 127230W (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2670245
Event: Seventeenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2023, 2023, Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States
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In 1995, the PHOTON Projects began developing curriculum materials and providing teacher/faculty professional development for the "new" field of fiber optics. After three successful projects advancing photonics education, something was still missing– students could solve end-of-chapter problems and pass written tests, but companies reported graduates had poor problem solving and critical thinking skills and were missing the "soft skills" needed for the workplace. In 2006 we were funded by NSF-ATE for the first of four projects to address industry’s concerns - the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Projects. We developed a comprehensive series of multimedia instructional modules, the PBL "Challenges", to teach problem-solving at the same time as content, requiring students to master the subject matter and also use critical thinking, communications, time management and other workplace skills. In this paper
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Nicholas Massa and Judy Donnelly "The PBL projects: genesis and evolution", Proc. SPIE 12723, Seventeenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2023, 127230W (28 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2670245
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Photonics
Industry
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Fiber optics
Video
Online learning
Fiber lasers
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