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PB Learning is a virtual learning environment (VLE) that helps institutions define, deliver and monitor active learning without imposing a single teaching method. Teachers structure curricula, support collaboration and follow each learner’s progress.
From individual learning to a shared understanding of the problem.
Understand the situation, discuss prior knowledge, formulate hypotheses and identify what still needs to be learned.
Together, with the tutor
Research, work through resources, experiment and gather evidence of your learning to test the group’s ideas.
Independent study, individually or in small groups
Share findings, compare hypotheses with evidence, organise knowledge and return to the original problem.
A shared answer with visible individual learning
Questions still open? Further investigation can inform the synthesis.
Use this knowledge in a project, a practical outcome or a prototype, with its own milestones, responsibilities and assessment criteria.
A problem-based learning cycle does not require a prototype: project application depends on the learning objectives.
The tutor supports reasoning, helps clarify learning objectives and encourages reflection. The institution’s teaching methods provide the framework for these activities.
Problem-Based, Project-Based, and Prototype-Based Learning: three complementary approaches from understanding to making.
Students analyze a problem situation, identify what they need to learn, and progressively mobilize the required knowledge.
Students work in teams, share responsibilities, and develop skills around a common objective.
Ideas become a concrete outcome. Students test, learn from mistakes, and progressively improve their solution.
Working together is not one option among others: it is what makes learning happen. Here is why, and how the platform makes it concrete.
Clear responsibilities, shared milestones and common deliverables help every learner contribute. The teacher adapts this framework to the needs of the group.
Explaining a hypothesis to the team and considering objections helps clarify reasoning, with guidance from the teacher.
Sharing roles, keeping a commitment, settling a disagreement: these are learned by practising them, and they matter as much as the syllabus.
Contributions, feedback, assessments, and badges stay attached to each student. The group is how they learn, never a way to dilute responsibility.
Explaining, challenging ideas, and producing together make learning visible. The platform gives teachers a framework to support it.
PB Learning supports approaches documented by research for over fifty years, including both their benefits and their limitations.
Problem-based learning was formalised in the late 1960s to train practitioners able to reason through a real case, rather than recite a lecture.
McMaster University — work of Howard BarrowsGroup work only produces its effects when each person's success genuinely depends on the others'. That is what separates a team from a simple division of tasks.
Cooperative learning research — Johnson & JohnsonSyntheses of active learning in science and engineering associate these approaches with better results and lower failure rates than lecturing alone.
Meta-analysis of 225 studies — Freeman et al., PNAS, 2014The PBL advantage shows up mainly in long-term retention and skill transfer; it is less clear-cut on immediate recall in standardised exams. A reason to combine it, not to isolate it.
Meta-synthesis — Strobel & van Barneveld, 2009These studies concern teaching approaches. They do not measure the effectiveness of PB Learning itself.
PB Learning brings curriculum design, achievement monitoring, assessment, and feedback into one environment.
Reuse your resources or build a first capsule, then define instructions and assessment criteria. Preparation time depends on your starting material; integrated tools avoid software installation to get started.
Set criteria and review each learner’s work, assessments and badges. These records inform your judgment of individual learning within the group project.
Yes. PB Learning structures your Markdown capsules, learning outcomes, quizzes, and parametric exercises without locking you into imposed content. You remain the author of the learning journey.
Get help drafting and improving courses, learning capsules, and projects directly within PB Learning’s pedagogical structure.
Build Markdown capsules with learning outcomes, quizzes, and parametric exercises.
Prepare problem-based learning cycles and projects with their phases, resources and assessment criteria.
Read PB Learning guides, validate content, and review proposed changes before applying them.
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Collaborative work becomes observable without losing sight of each learner’s individual progress.
Contributions show how learners explore, compare ideas, and build a response together.
Clear roles help everyone contribute, take initiative, and understand how the team works.
Milestones, deliverables, and decisions give the team direction and make collaboration visible.
Contributions, feedback, assessments, and badges document achievement and help every learner improve.
Write, code, compute, simulate, and test: capsules combine content, assessment, and interactive tools.
Teachers build Markdown capsules with quizzes and parametric exercises. They can embed the tools learners use, with nothing to install and everything running in the browser.
A multilingual environment connecting classrooms and campuses, on site and at a distance.
Specify the level, language, and type of project to prepare a suitable collaboration.
Register my institutionClasses from several institutions can work on the same problem or project while keeping their own teaching organization.
Teams share assumptions, prototypes, and lessons learned to compare approaches.
Milestones and deliverables support coordination across time zones, calendars, and languages.
Shared criteria make outcomes comparable without imposing a single solution on every partner.
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An experiment in one classroom can progressively become a practice shared by colleagues.
A teacher launches a first problem, project, or prototype with students.
Colleagues join, reuse resources, and enrich the projects.
The school can then support the approach, align practices, and develop collaborations.
Not one more system to administer: PB Learning plugs into your LMS, your identity provider and your team's tools, and lets everyone keep their habits.
The activity opens from a Moodle, Canvas or Blackboard course: learners arrive already signed in, and results flow back into the gradebook with no double entry.
Every project team gets its own git repository, generated from a template, with access rights that follow the team roster. Submitting freezes a tag: the record is dated and cannot be edited afterwards.
Your institution's services can delegate sign-in to PB Learning. One account, one password, and no directory to keep in sync between tools.
LTI 1.3 with its grade services, OpenID Connect, Open Badges 2.0 and 3.0, MCP for AI assistants: documented doors that leave you free to walk away with your data.
Trial, plans, data and support: prepare your first class.
The PB Learning app guides learners through their learning paths and keeps progress synchronized with their institution’s workspace.
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