Current Projects
CBL-CMPS Project - Dilemma Problems |
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Teaching is a profession that requires ethical and intellectual responsibility and subtle judgment. Helping future teachers to understand the complexity and ambiguity involved in daily practices and to develop professional views of various issues regarding education is critical to teacher education. This project identifies the nature of dilemma problems and finds ways of enhancing students' ill-structured problem solving abilities in a case-based e-learning environment by promoting the development of their epistemic beliefs, critical thinking, and justification skills. (More Info) SME: Dr. Kyunghwa Lee, Department of Elementary & Social Studies Education, UGA
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CBL-Anesthesiology Project - Dynamic Decision-Making Problems |
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The anesthetization process is a complex and high-risk task in which critical decisions need to be made in a timely manner during dynamically changing situations. Instructors in this course are often challenged by the fact that a great amount of information needs to be delivered to the students within a very limited time. This project aims to identify the nature of dynamic/naturalistic decision-making processes and to find ways of facilitating decision-making skills in a dynamic situation through a case-based e-learning environment. This learning environment is designed to facilitate the integration of three essential kinds of knowledge for solving real-world problems simultaneously--situational knowledge, strategic knowledge and content knowledge. SME: Dr. Jeongwan Kang, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, South Korea |
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CBL-MDPS Project - Multi-disciplinaryProblems |
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Engineering is a practical art learned from scientific knowledge, mathematical logic and applied experience to design and create under constrains. A recent UGA Engineering Think Tank identified three characteristics for profiling a future UGA engineer: 1) technical excellence in science, mathematics, analysis and synthesis; 2) innovative curiosity for creative adaptation from learning, unlearning and relearning; and 3) humanistic consciousness grounded in humanities, arts and social sciences. In this project, we identify the unique nature of multi-disciplinary problems, and we develop and implement a case-based learning environment in order to enhance future engineers' scientific, innovative, adaptive, and ethical problem solving abilities. SME: Dr. Guigen Zhang, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UGA |
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CBL-Orthopedic Surgery Project - Dynamic Deicison and Design Problems |
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Helping future veterinarians understand the complex and dynamic nature of veterinary medicine and effectively exercise their judgment based on analytical and reflective thinking is a critical mission in veterinary education. In this project, we develop and implement a case-based e-learning environment through which future veterinarians are exposed to various small animal orthopedic surgery cases and how experts think and react to the cases. This innovative training will enhance prospective veterinarians' reasoning and dynamic decision-making skills along with their awareness of multiple perspectives and diverse ways of problem solving. SME: Dr. Dennis Aron, Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, UGA |
Previous Projects
Online Peer -- Questioning Project -- Peer-questioning for facilitating reflective thinking in a Case-based Turfgrass Management Online Class |
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Meaningful discussion that facilitates reflective thinking can be initiated when learners raise thoughtful questions or provide critical feedback; however, generating effective questions requires a certain level of domain knowledge and metacognitive skills of the question-askers. This project aims to develop a peer-questioning scaffolding framework and a variety of static (artifacts) and dynamic (instructors) instructional strategies in a case-based e-learning environment, which scaffolds effective peer interactions in order to facilitate reflective and meaningful knowledge construction. SME: Dr. A. J. Turgeon, Department of Corp and Social Science, Penn State, UGA |
