The future of PBL: How to move from a one-size-fits-all copy-paste approach to customized PBL alternatives?
Although current instructional design models for complex learning differ in various ways, they all focus on real-life tasks as the main vehicle for driving student learning. These tasks are derived from professionally or societally relevant problems. In problem-based learning (PBL), but also in project-based learning and cognitive apprenticeship learning, the task is at the center of learning to encourage the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes and to enhance transfer of learning to new problems encountered in the workplace and in real life. PBL fits well with these current instructional design principles. Over the years, PBL has evolved within and across institutions, demonstrating that there is no true one-size-fits-all copy-paste approach to PBL. The current trend is to adapt PBL and develop alternative PBL approaches, to implement PBL variations, and to re-design and investigate these diversified practices. As a result, we now regard PBL as a family of approaches with certain characteristics, in which tasks are at the center of learning. The challenge is to continuously adapt and redesign PBL to ensure that all elements within the learning environment are aligned with the intended outcomes. In this keynote I will present how we can look at PBL practice and research differently.

Keynote 3: Diana Dolmans - discussant: Ulisses Araújo

[Conference proceedings](https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/transforming-pbl-through-hybrid-learning-models-timely-challenges)