Planning PBL in Computing Education An Approach Based on a Collaborative Toolkit

This Innovate Practice Full Paper presents a case of use of the PBL Planner toolkit, a tool that assists collaborative teaching planning in the PBL approach, from preserving its principles. The PBL (Problem-Based Learning) methodology provides many advantages to those adopting it in the teaching-learning process. To this end, a good planning that guides the usage of the methodology towards the goals established by the teacher is fundamental, in order to prevent core aspects to be neglected. However, there is a lack of specific solutions to help teachers to plan their teaching. This is even more pronounced in the specific case of PBL. As a solution to this problem, this paper proposes a tool composed by a PBL Canvas and a set of cards, used to guide the teaching planning in PBL, called PBL Planner Toolkit. Initial results indicate a good acceptance of the tool, as well as evidence of its efficacy its adoption, elicited through the application of a survey that evaluated the usage of the PBL Planner Toolkit.