In these institutions, physicists have been pioneering teaching methods drawn from research showing that most students learn fundamental concepts more successfully, and are better able to apply them, through interactive, collaborative, student-centered learning.
students sit at 13 round tables equipped with networked computers.
the researchers determined that face-to-face communication was far more important to an organization’s work than was generally believed.Productivity improved 30 percent with an incremental increase in face-to-face communication
some interesting examples of how cell phones/gps are being used in the field of "collective intelligence." I suspect some of this could be applied to a PBL project. (e.g. have students use pachube to contribute data)
A PDF of his presentation. Relatively basic but has some nice introductory slides that would be helpful to someone who had no experience with PBL or webquests or online projects.