Dr. Renate Fruchter receives Honorary Professor title and is awarded Doctor Honoris Causa
at the Doctoral Promotion Ceremony at Aalborg University, Denmark, Friday April 8, 2011. The appointment is linked to Renate's ground-breaking work on Global Project Based Learning (PBL), the further development of the pedagogical principles, the ICT environment, and documentation of what works.
Learning!100 Award Category: Innovation March 22, 2011
for the PBL Lab and the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) Global Teamwork course at Stanford University
U.S. Distant Learning Association (USDLA) May 4th, 2010
forPBL Lab and the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) Global Teamwork course at Stanford University, won the
21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning Distinction.
Welcome
The PBL Lab is the home of a unique, innovative, integrated research and curriculum development effort launched in 1993 in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
The PBL Lab's Goal is to be world leaders in Global Teamwork together with our partners.
Mission
Our Mission is to engage graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and industry practitioners in multi-disciplinary, collaborative, geographically distributed PBL activities. PBL is a process of teaching and learning that focuses on problem based, project centered activities that produce a product for a client. PBL will be based on re-engineering processes that bring people from multiple disciplines together.
Our Objectives are to develop, implement, test, deploy, and assess radically new and innovative
- collaboration technologies
- learning technologies
- knowledge capture, sharing and re-use technologies
- workspaces
- learning and work processes