Students’ and teachers’ experiences with the implementation of problem-based learning at a university law school

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Wijnen, Marit ^a   Loyens, Sofie M M ^b,c   Smeets, Guus ^b   Kroeze, Maarten J ^a   Van der Molen, Henk T ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experiences; Implementation; Law students; Problem based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020465912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7771/1541-5015.1681     Document Type: Article

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