Context Based Learning

[Chaundra]

Does anyone else out there go to a school that uses the CBL (Context based learning) approach. I go to a school in Alberta and all the University of Alberta collaborative schools use this format for their nursing degree programs. It involves group learning instead of formal classroom settings. We are given nursing scenarios and have to research and teach ourselves and our classmates. I am interested to find out if our program is unique and what people think of the program. Our class has very mixed feelings, some love it some hate it. We are only the 3rd class through so there are no graduates in the workforce as of yet to see how we fare in a job setting.

[Streamline2010]

I simply do not understand the logic behind how can we brainstorm on something we have never com across!!

As a mature adult, I concur with that. The CBL belongs later in the program. First, you learn, Thoroughly, the basics. THEN you apply it. My major gripe with RN school was that they are ALWAYS demanding that you run, and run well (80% to pass) before you'd ever had the chance to LEARN. If you deliberately want to hold down the number of new grads entering the workforce, that approach works very well because only some % of the entire class will be able to succeed that way and a large % will be tossed out of the program. I rather thought that RN school itself was very abusive and evil.