Designing Problem-based Learning Cases to Foster Student Engagement in STEM

We all recognize the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) in engaging everyone and helping students develop critical thinking and teamwork skills. PBL was developed to make medicine students ready to work under real life conditions. Therefore, since the 50s there have been several cases for medicine scenarios being published. In the STEM field it is still not common to use this method, which is quite unfortunate. Therefore, we have chosen to share how we implement PBL to teach Communication Networks to master’s students. In this paper, we will present our experiences in designing new PBL cases, alongside feedback from our Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL). These cases reflect current trends in key topics related to communication networks, our engagement strategies, and the student feedback we have received during the winter semester 2024/25.

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Author:	Koojana Kuladinithi ORCiD, Aliyu Makama ORCiD, Yevhenii Shudrenko ORCiD, Siska Simon, Musab Ahmed, Teresa Algarra, Shashini Wanniarachchi ORCiD, Andreas Timm-Giel ORCiD
Language:	English
Document Type:	Conference Paper
Publishing Institution:	Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
Conference:	6. Symposium zur Hochschullehre in den MINT-Fächern, Nuremberg (Germany), 17.-19.09.2025
Year of first Publication:	2025
published in (German):	Tagungsband zum 6. Mint Symposium: Zukunft MINT Lehre: Was bleibt? Was kommt? Was wirkt?
Editor(s):	Hanna Dölling, Claudia Schäfle
Publisher:	BayZiel
Place of publication:	München
First Page:	135
Last Page:	144
Review:	peer-review
Open Access:	ja
Tag:	PBL; communication networks; engagement strategies; international student groups; teamwork
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-63645
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.57825/repo_in-6364
Faculties / Institutes / Organizations:	BayZiel - Bayerisches Zentrum für Innovative Lehre, Lehr- und Lernforschung
Congresses and conferences:	2025: 6. Symposium zur Hochschullehre in den MINT-Fächern
Licence (German):	Creative Commons BY 4.0
Note:	von der Lizenz ausgenommen: Tabellen, Abbildungen, Illustrationen, graphische Darstellungen
Release Date:	2025/12/08

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