A Tiny Adventure: The introduction of problem based learning in an undergraduate chemistry course

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-42

  Williams, Dylan P ^a   Woodward, Jonathan R ^b   Symons, Sarah L ^c   Davies, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Group work; Mini projects; Problem based learning; Projects; Transferable skills; Wiki

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955806651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c001045f     Document Type: Article

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