IAIM - Learning Styles and Problem Based Learning
- 1. LEARNING STYLES AS PREDICTORS OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING SUCCESS IN THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS CLASSROOM Timothy Olsen Richard Welke Center for Process Innovation Georgia State University Presented at SIG-ED 2008 – Paris, France
- 2. Research Question Can satisfaction with problem-based learning be explained by students’ learning styles? What led me to ask this question: NSF Grant (CPATH) Feedback from students Disrupting Class , Clayton Christensen, 2008
- 3. PBL is an answer Can we make courses more appealing? (low enrollment) Can we build life-long learners? (necessary in IS industries) Can we adopt a teaching model that emphasizes team work? (recruiters like this)
- 4. History of PBL Background – Plato and Socrates required that their students think, retrieve information for themselves, search for new ideas and debate them in a scholarly environment. However, this process differs from the teacher-dominated approach used in most educational settings. PBL is not a new teaching method. 1968 PBL introduced in Canadian medical school 1970’s many USA and European schools adopted varieties of PBL 1990’s introduced into many other professional schools and colleges 2007 Georgia State CIS program starts adoption
- 5. Our PBL Model Students work in small teams (4) with a leader & ‘roving’ facilitator Students share results and apply to problem Individual reflection at end of problem Problem as authentic for IS professional as possible Problem drives the learning
- 8. Example Questions from Felder’s Learning Style Questionnaire
- 9. Learning Styles Sample results from Felder and Solomon’s online questionnaire
- 10. Exploratory Results N = 12
- 11. Questions I have Does anyone have experience using Grasha’s teaching or learning style survey instruments? Learning Style Instrument Teaching Style Instrument What are good measures of student satisfaction? What are your questions?