Since, in a theoretical sense, everything under the sun in interconnected, then, also theoretically, there is something in every discipline that can inform the topic subsumbed in any other discipline. PBL may be implemented in as many ways as there are people working in PBL to solve their problems. Again, as in question 4, students are limited only by the narrowly constructed imagination they need to explore how to solve their problem. The opinions are still out. PBL fosters independent thinking and problem solving skills, dissipates student boredom and grounds factualinformation into real world experiences, and encourages collaborative learning.
Some students feel lost and uncomfortable with assuming authority for their own learning.
They are fearful of not being in a structured enviornment that helps to determine grades. The especially slow students have been shown to lack the initiative to work well in this environment. Testing factual information among PBL learners tends to be low as spposed to the scores of traditional learners. The task of PBL is to facilitate learning of students rather than to convey knowledge. First developed in medical education it develops problem solving and self-educational abilities, acquisition of integrated knowledge based structure around real world problems.