What follows is our group's answers to the questions raised in the Ivestigating PBL exercise on Thursday, June 13, 1996.
Different problems require time constraints.
Our feeling is that PBL should be applicable to any discipline. The common characterics of a PBL Problem is learning by doing. At the present time there are some difficulties because the teachers as well as students have to get adjusted and become familiar with the new methodology. Students and most instructors are more familiar with chalk and talk. Also, students familiar with chalk and talk have difficultly adapting to PBL and teachers find it uneasy and difficult to shift.