Pure Question Based Learning - an efficient and motivating pedagogy, and now with AI support
COM3 Level 2
MR21, COM3 02-61
Abstract:
Join us for an engaging seminar on Pure Question Based Learning (PQBL) — a powerful approach that uses carefully crafted questions to deepen thinking, strengthen understanding, and foster learner autonomy. The methodology has been developed, tested and refined both at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden and elsewhere (Swedish Defense College, Erasmus project) since 2022, mainly in programming but also in leadership courses and most lately a course on AI for foreign language learning. Bring your computer to experience it yourself during the seminar and discuss whether this could be something for your students. You can find more information in these papers:
Bälter, O.; Glassey, R.; Jemstedt, A.; Bosk, D. Pure Question-Based Learning. Educ. Sci. 2024, 14, 882.
Jemstedt, A., Bälter, O., Gavel, A., Glassey, R., & Bosk, D. (2024). Less to produce and less to consume: the advantage of pure question-based learning. Interactive Learning Environments, 1–22.
Bio:
Olle Bälter is a professor in Computer Science at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has since his sabbatical at Stanford Graduate School of Education 2015-2016 been researching question-based learning, a very effective method for learning developed at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University. In 2022 together with Ric Glassey (a 2023 STINT Scholar at NUS) they improved this pedagogy to _pure Question-Based Learning_, with two main advantages: it significantly reduces the course development time, and it makes generative AI a real powerful assistant in the course development. Bälter has been awarded several pedagogical prizes and commendations, including a STINT Excellence in Teaching scholarship at Williams College 2008.