May 16, 2008
News & Events
• New Director of Professional Development
BIE is pleased to welcome David Ross as our new Director of Professional Development!
• BIE presentation at Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
"PBL-Online.org: An International Web Resource for Project Based Learning Professional Development"
• Portuguese Version of BIE PBL Handbook Now Available
Details. . .
• BIE Working With West Virginia Educators
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• BIE Sessions at AERA 2008 Annual Meeting
"Project Based Learning as a Catalyst in Reforming High Schools" and two other sessions
• BIE Presentation at EARLI 2007 Conference
"The effectiveness of problem based economics: A summary of two promising studies."
• New versions of Problem Based Economics Units Now Available
Details . . .
• BIE Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of AERA
Presentation was titled "Assessing the Impact of Problem-Based Learning on College Student Understanding of Microeconomics Principles."
• BIE PBL Handbook Now Available in Chinese, Portuguese and Korean
Publishers in Taiwan, China, Brazil and Korea will print local versions of the BIE Project Based Learning Handbook in 2007.
• Education Week's on-line chat on PBL
Read a transcript of Education Week's on-line chat on PBL on February 22, 2006. Ben Daley and Theresa Gilly of High Tech High in San Diego answer many of the common questions about PBL.
• BIE Study Published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem Based Learning
The Effectiveness of Problem-Based Instruction: A Comparative Study of Instructional Methods and Student Characteristics
• BIE Session at 2006 NCEE Conference
Centers, College Instructors, High School Teachers Using Problem Based Economics Effectively
• BIE Technology Concept Paper featured at NTLS VIII
Paper is titled "Supporting change and scholarship through review of online resources in professional development settings."
