This webinar is part of our 2021 CPD webinar sessions. Participants will earn an ALT CPD Open Badge which can be used as evidence towards accreditation via one of the pathways in ALT’s CMALT framework.

If you missed a previous CPD webinar, recordings are available over on Youtube.  

Presenter:   Anuradha Peramunugamage 

Engineering is the field or discipline, practice, profession and art to cater to social needs. Cooperative and collaborative forms of learning with hands-on experience have proven to be effective leaning methods for engineering subjects. Hence, a teacher is no longer the primary source of knowledge and their role has shifted to a student-centric facilitator. Student-centered learning plays a major role in the education sector, requiring the teacher to work mainly as a facilitator. Problem Based Learning (PBL) provides an opportunity for the teacher to restructure the mode of teaching. Moreover, the increased use of mobile smart devices has changed the students’ pattern of learning. Thus, this presentation presents a Mobile Learning Framework to support Problem Based Learning (MobiPBL) that was developed using a design-based research approach. When designing mobile PBL activities teachers has to consider on a real-world scenario which can be divided into sub-problems. Students should be able to share information easily as audio/video/ text and when sharing information bandwidth and file have to consider. When forming groups; small group (3-4 members) and random group formation made effective results. Per group 1-2 facilitator(s) preferred with an industry expert. Self-evaluation, peer evaluation, group evaluation and teacher evaluation allowed students to work actively in the course. Also presents design considerations and implementation guidelines for the use of mobile technology in PBL