This book provides insights drawn from the authors' extensive experience in teaching Puzzle-based Learning. Practical advice is provided for teachers and lecturers evaluating a range of different formats for varying class sizes. Features: suggests numerous entertaining puzzles designed to motivate students to think about framing and solving unstructured problems; discusses models for student engagement, setting up puzzle clubs, hosting a puzzle competition, and warm-up activities; presents an overview of effective teaching approaches used in Puzzle-based Learning, covering a variety of class activities, assignment settings and assessment strategies; examines the issues involved in framing a problem and reviews a range of problem-solving strategies; contains tips for teachers and notes on common student pitfalls throughout the text; provides a collection of puzzle sets for use during a Puzzle-based Learning event, including puzzles that require probabilistic reasoning, and logic and geometry puzzles.

Presents a range of general problem-solving strategies that transcend disciplines Highlights the importance of introspection and the value of meta-level reasoning in the problem-solving process Examines the development of the student in terms of their understanding of knowledge and epistemological progress Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Edwin F. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, USA.

Dr. Nickolas Falkner is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean of Information Technology in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Dr. Raja Sooriamurthi is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Information Systems Program at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz is an Emeritus Professor of the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He also holds Professor positions at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology.

Klappentext
Puzzle-based Learning is a foundational approach to develop the critical thinking skills and mental stamina essential for solving real-world problems.This Guide to Teaching Puzzle-based Learning provides invaluable insights drawn from the authors' extensive experience in teaching Puzzle-based Learning. Practical advice is provided for teachers and lecturers evaluating a range of different formats for varying class sizes, based on results from classes taught in many different countries.Topics and features:Suggests numerous entertaining puzzles designed to motivate students to think about framing and solving unstructured problemsDiscusses models for student engagement, setting up puzzle clubs, hosting a puzzle competition, and various warm-up activitiesPresents an overview of effective teaching approaches used in Puzzle-based Learning, covering a variety of class activities, assignment settings and assessment strategiesExamines the issues involved in framing a problem, and reviews a range of problem-solving strategiesContains tips for teachers and notes on common student pitfalls throughout the textProvides a collection of puzzle sets for use during a Puzzle-based Learning event, including puzzles that require probabilistic reasoning, and logic and geometry puzzlesThis unique textbook/guide will be of great interest to instructors on all levels who wish to experiment with the Puzzle-based Learning approach. This approach has been successfully applied in universities, high schools, professional organizations and leading companies.

Inhalt

Part I: Motivation and Teaching.- Motivation.- Getting Started.- Icebreakers.- Effective Teaching Approaches.- Part II: Tools, Tips and Strategies.- Understand the Problem.- Reasoning: Logic and Reasoning Backwards.- Pattern Recognition.- Enumerate and Eliminate.- Simplify!.- Perform a Gedanken: What If? and So What?.- Simulation and Optimization.- Part III: Challenges.- Probabilistic Reasoning.- Logical Reasoning.- Geometric Reasoning.- Grand Challenges.- Summary.- List of Puzzles.