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Case-based learning (CBL) is a pedagogical concept, where work method, problem, and discipline are identified by the learner (or learners) through the learning process. Case-based learning is oriented toward a case, which from different perspectives generates different and equally correct problems. Case-based learning is about choosing, deciding priorities, and combining different disciplines, and as such is best practiced in a multidisciplinary context.
Theoretical Background
Back in the early 1990s, the term case-based learning was often synonymous with case-based reasoning, which means reasoning based on remembering previous experiences (e.g., Kolodner 1993). This understanding of case-based learning was based on machine learning.
Today, case-based learning is usually emphasized as a special kind of problem-based learning. However, the first clear definition, with a systematic distinction and inclusive relation to problem-based learning, solution-based...
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Rosenstand, C.A.F. (2012). Case-Based Learning. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_812
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