Problem Based Learning and the Super Courses

Sally Kohn: I love that distinction between being smart and not willing to give up on things. And obviously, a lot of these super courses are involving elements of problem based learning in what they do. But the primary distinction begins with the notion that the problems themselves are very carefully constructed to bring students into the conversation so that as advanced learners, educators, we are often interested in certain questions because we were once interested in another question. We're deep underground digging at what we know to be extraordinarily valuable intellectual or professional but our students may be standing on the surface wondering why anybody in the right behind would be so far underground. She says this is one of the most distinctive features about them that