The Development of Problem-Based Learning and Its Prospect in Vocational Education

Abstract

Problem-based learning (PBL) was fi rst used in medical case-solving, professor Barrows of the Canadian medical school has inspired curriculum reform at mcmaster University's School of Medicine in Canada by putting learners at the centre and proposing problem-solving and collaborative learning approaches to teaching, the problem-based learning (PBL) model, which began with the problem-based learning (PBL-RRB- model, was successfully reformed and followed by other medical schools, as the concept of problem-based learning spreads around the world, it has attracted the attention of educators and researchers outside of medical-related fi elds, and gradually extended to related professional fi elds, such as social work, architecture, engineering education, business, economics, law, etc. , in less than 15 years since the introduction of problem-based learning (PBL) , it has been widely applied to higher education and basic education, since the 1980s, problem-based learning (PBL) has also been applied in the vocational education fi eld.