No Subjects, No Teachers, No Schools, No Peers

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kelvin Tan and Cynthia Lim Ai Ming: No Subjects, No Teachers, No Schools, No Peers, Temasek Polytechnic November 10, 2005

It should be evident that subject-based teaching and project-based learning conflict with each other. "subjects or disciplines have their own agenda... [and] the retention of subject boundaries will inevitably compromise the design of authentic problems for PBL." So write Kelvin Tan and Cynthia Lim Ai Ming as they are for a subject-free approach to learning. More...