Overview

Today graduates need to be self directed and possess lifelong learning skills. They need to be critical thinkers, problem solvers and analytical in their approach. The interdisciplinary nature of work means that they need to be able to integrate knowledge and skills from a number of disciplines as well as have the interpersonal skills to be an effective team member.

Problem-based learning activities are designed to develop these skills and attributes (sometimes called Generic Skills/Attributes) along with the appropriate discipline specific knowledge.
Generic skills/attributes are now widely accepted and acknowledged as important outcomes from a university education and are being written into virtually every curriculum document developed today.

Generic skills/attributes

Some of the generic skills and attributes developed and assessed by PBL are as follows:

• problem solving
• critical thinking
• metacognition--thinking about your own thinking processes
• ethics
• communication
• information literacy
• lifelong learning

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