Engineering students' development of PBL competences in a PBL curriculum: Exploring students' reflections of teamwork competences in PBL

Abstract

My name is Anders Melbye Boelt and I am a PhD fellow at the Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science and Sustainability under the auspices of UNESCO (UCPBL) as well as a teaching assistant at the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University (AAU). I completed a master's in IT, Learning and Organizational Change from AAU in 2017 and worked as a research assistant prior to my employment as a PhD student at the UCPBL at the Department of Planning. During both employments I was part of the cross-faculty research project PBL Future, where I participated in two distinct subprojects: one concerning improving students' individual reflective practice of competence development using different types of digital technologies, and as part of a baseline study researching the integration of PBL competences into formal curricula. My PhD project draws on experiences from PBL Future and also has a focus on generic competence development.