Welcome

1. Welcome to Maastricht University

2. ? Problem Based Learning - Practice session Introduction Day Exchange Students 30 August 2013

3. Characteristics of a tutorial group • Group of maximum 15 students • 2-hour-meetings,twicea week • Pre-discussion – post discussion of (real time) problems

4. Problem Based Learning system • The seven jump 1 Unfamiliar words and definitions 2 Problem statements 3 Brainstorm 4 Analyse and criticise 5 Formulate learning objectives 6 Study the required literature 7 Post discussion

5. Roles during the meeting • Group member • Is preparedandparticipates • Discussion leader • Sets the agenda • Guides the discussion • Encourages participation • Summarizes the discussion • Evaluates the group functioning • Secretary • Takes note of important elements that are discussed

6. Roles during the meeting - II • Tutor • Facilitates/Assists discussion • Creates a pleasant learning environment • Contributes knowledge and experience • Questions everything

7. Expectations, and cultural issues • You need to take responsibility for your own learning experiences • The culture at SBE is open and there is little hierarchy: you are expected to participate and share your knowledge and ideas. • Learning through PBL can be interesting and fun, but youneed to make it so.

8. Variations on PBL • You might encounter courses where PBL is not strictly followed (or not at all), depending on: • Topic of the course (e.g. Accounting, Finance) • Level of the course (more PBL in year 1, less in year 3/MSc) • But still: learning is ‘student-based’ e.g.: literature presentations, cases, facilitations • Then what’s the point of learning PBL? • Although we do not follow PBL explicitly, we certainly follow it implicitly. When students know all the steps, then they can easily skip less relevant steps of PBL. Therefore, it is still important to learn the process of PBL.

9. Facilitation I • A small group of students is assigned to be facilitators for an entire tutorial meeting. • These students are responsible for the full two hours of the session. They will have to present, discuss and illustrate the literature of the meeting while involving and challenging the audience. • It is important to note that this encompasses more than being a ‘mere discussion leader’. The tutorial’s added value is the application of the literature. As such a sequentialsummary of the articles is not sufficient

10. Facilitation II • During the meeting you should help the audience to understand and integrate literature. • Questions you should ask yourself in developing this could be: • What is the main message of each article? • How do the articles relate to each other? • Do they offer differing perspectives, do they contradict, do they complement? • How does this session relate to previous sessions? • How do the articles fit in the broader context of the knowledge you developed in your previous courses?

11. ? Introduction round

12. Introduction round • Name & age • Nationality • Experience studying/living/working abroad? • Why did you choose to come to UM? • Expectations of UM? • Expectations of PBL? • Do you know anyone who studies/d at UM? • Home university? • Educational system at home university • Major/minor? • Plans after your current studies? • Hobbies? • Interesting summer/winter activities? • Travel plans for your stay in Maastricht?

13. Introduction round • What would be the most difficult type of food to give up? • What is one goal you’d like to accomplish in your life? • If you could visit any place in the world; where and why? • What’s your ideal dream job? • What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten? • If you had a time machine. Where and when would you travel to? • If you won €1 million, what would you do with it? • If you wouldn’t have studied IB/Economics, then… • If you had one extra hour of free time a day, how would you use it? • If you could spend 15 minutes with anyone, who and why? • If we Googled your name what would we find? • If you could live in any sitcom, what would it be?

14. ? PBL task: WikiLeaks

15. (Un)authorized Leaking of the leaks: WikiLeaksWikiLeaks is an international, online, not-for-profit organization which leaked millions of private, secret, and classified information media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. To mention a few, according to Wikipedia, early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and corruption in Kenya. In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released the ‘Afghan War Diary’, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan, not previously available to the public. In October 2010, the organization released a package of almost 400,000 documents called ‘the Iraq War Logs’ in coordination with major commercial media organizations. It is understandable why the U.S. government was offended by the huge leaks, which may lead to potential criminal prosecution against its founder, Julian Assange; but it is less understandable why the social media give out different opinions on the activities of WikiLeaks:“We therefore have been deeply grateful for the accomplishments of WikiLeaks”“WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a criminal enterprise.”Source: Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks accessed on 20 August 2012.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/wikileaks-and-the-global-future-of-free-speech.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080202627.html

16. Evaluation and follow-up What was it like for you to have this session? Do you have any idea what you can expect and what is expected of you? Any more questions? Any feedback on this session? For more information, please check www.umpblprep.nl and use the contact form if your question is not covered.