Problem-Based Learning and Technology: Impact on Preservice Teachers' Motivational Orientations

• In Event: Problem-Based Education SIG Full Paper Session: Teachers and Problem-Based Education

Abstract

Problem-based learning (PBL) is an inquiry-based approach to learning that requires students to be engaged with a real-world problem. The theoretical promise of the PBL environment is that learners will be intrinsically motivated as they are challenged and given autonomy to direct their own learning. In this research, preservice teachers are immersed in either a traditional PBL environment (tPBL) or an Internet-supported PBL environment (ePBL). The focus of this study is to examine the effects of PBL (tPBL and ePBL) on preservice teachers’ motivational orientations. The understanding of the changes in preservice teachers’ motivational orientations after PBL (tPBL and ePBL) will inform teacher educators on how to improve on its implementation to enhance preservice teachers’ motivation to learn.

Authors

• Bee Leng Chua, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Oon Seng Tan, Singapore National Institute of Education

• Woon Chia Liu, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University