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Finding and Creating Spaces of Innovation

2021; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s42438-021-00266-0

2524-4868

Maggi Savin‐Baden, Alison MacKenzie,

Smart Cities and Technologies

AMK): Tell me a bit about yourself in career terms: where you come from, how have you got from problem-based learning to the postdigital?Maggi Savin-Baden (MSB): I first started using problem-based learning in about 1985, when I became a lecturer at Brunel.I was teaching occupational therapy and they were trying out problem-based learning with Barrows and Tamblyn's Problembased Learning: An Approach to Medical Education (1980), which was the only book in the world on problem-based learning.Some of the students liked problembased learning and some hated it, and we spent a lot of time trying to work out the scenarios.It wasn't my idea; it was Gaynor Sadlo's.I was always interested in learning because I failed so badly at school.I'd started to do a postgraduate diploma in higher education at London University, one of the first ever in the UK.Having done that for two years, the person who'd been encouraging me said I should do a Masters and I thought, 'I'm not capable of that'.So, for my masters I did a mixed method study into students' experiences of problem-based learning and that's where it began.Then the same person said, 'Maggi, you should go on and do a PhD', and I went, 'erm right!'.