DEVELOPMENT OF INTERVENTION CASE CARDS TO HELP PBL INSTRUCTORS IN REFRAMING THEIR ROLE PERCEPTIONS

Recently Project-Based Learning (PBL) style concentrated on real-world issues has been employed in many educational institutions as a learner-centered approach.In the approach the role of an instructor is not to provide knowledge, but to assist learners' progress.Many instructors involved in the practice of PBL, unfortunately, still do not clearly understand their own role, despite the significance that has been presented over the years of encouraging instructors to change their mindset.This study aims to develop a collection of "Intervention Case" Cards to help instructors in reframing their role perceptions within the PBL context, and to design a training program with the cards for evaluating their effectiveness in encouraging the mindset shifts.We collected real intervention examples with experienced PBL practitioners, then developed a set of 30 Intervention Case Cards, throughout iterative prototyping for refinement.The cards have three features: (1) each card presents a concrete example of instructional intervention and (2) corresponds to one or more of the key instructor roles in the learner-centered approach, and (3) the description of instructor's role is adjusted with the PBL context of the institution implementation.The features allow instructors to imagine specific intervention situations and to intuitively judge whether a case should be intervened in supporting learners of actual PBL practice.