This strategy is implicit in various others described here. PBL is a way to make learning meaningful and real. Instead of “learning” material out of textbooks, students work in teams to tackle real-world problems. Often, students will collaborate with peers across the world on global projects, forge meaningful relationships and build virtual communities of learners in the process. There are many advantages to PBL as a way to promote learning. Among them:
• Develops collaboration skills;
• Deals with real-world problems so students can make important connections between what they learn in school and its relevance to the world outside school;
• Results in a deeper and more holistic understanding of the subject being studied;
• Provides the means to integrate skills in various disciplines in much the same way that problems in the real world need a multi-faceted approach to solving them;
• Provides a good vehicle for delivering multidisciplinary curricula.