Using Hypermedia to Support Problem-Based Learning Hypermedia Supports for PBL PBL may have the potential to promote the acquisition of robust knowledge that learners can transfer from the context of the classroom to situations they encounter in other aspects of their lives.
Domains are complicated sets of interconnected facts, processes, and issues.
They are rich in their own problems that are well worth solving, and any practitioner or teacher in a particular domain is probably capable of generating numerous rich, complex problems. However, this generation of worthwhile problems in insufficient to the task of setting up a successful problem-based learning environment. They must then make sure that a wide variety of materials that deal with the learning issues needed to solve the problem are available and suitable to the needs of diverse learners. Once students are engaged in problem-solving, teachers must provide a variety of supports, managing group interactions to ensure that all groups are productive, encouraging the cognitive development of all students, and serving as a metacognitive coach to help students develop skills to monitor their own thinking. The difficulty of such tasks makes PBL unfeasible for most classroom teachers.