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Website that gives information of how to design a PBL project, and acts as a resource bank for existing PBL projects.

ntists from Heidelberg University investigate effectiveness of educational projects in crisis areasPeace education work in crisis and conflict areas actually does help to make hostile groups more peaceable in their attitudes towards one another. Compared with persons who have not taken part in such programmes, participants in so-called peace-building education projects in countries with armed conflicts differ often distinctly in the extent to which they are prepared to envisage peaceful conflict settlement. A research project at Heidelberg University's Institute for Education Studies has demonstrated that this is the case. Headed by Prof. Dr. Volker Lenhart, the scientists questioned almost 1,600 people in seven countries featuring earlier or ongoing armed conflicts, such as Afghanistan, Sudan or Israel/Palestine.

"International Professors Project is a worldwide organization focused on the long-term development of new International Professors as ambassadors of global education in search of understanding and learning. Our team of professors, fellows, and universities, using culturally appropriate methods and attitudes, works toward the goals of providing: University teaching; mentoring and curriculum development; dissemination of pertinent data and research; global collaborations and alliances. Cultural sophistication and background needed to address global pedagogical and curriculum issues."

Argues the case for PBL, and describes a number of specific exams of its use.

The Buck Institute for Education commissioned the cutting-edge advertising agency, Common Craft, to create a short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of Project Based Learning (PBL). This simple video makes the essential elements of PBL come alive and brings to light the 21st Century skills and competencies (collaboration, communication, critical thinking) that will enable K-12 students to be college and work-ready as well as effective members of their communities

Chris Dede, Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvards Graduate School of Education, and Michael Geisen, 2008 National Teacher of the Year, discuss Examples of project-based learning in the classroom.

3 teachers talk about how they restructured their day to incorporate project based learning

Students and Faculty at Learning Gate Community School speak about Project Based Learning

Background/Context: Bullying within schools continues despite thoughtful and well-researched anti-bullying strategies deployed against it. The bulk of research targeted toward understanding and eradicating bullying within schools is of an empirical nature. In other words, through data collection, questionnaires, interviews, ethnography, observation, case studies, etc., researchers have sought to carefully assess bully/victim characteristics as well as the social processes that fuel bullying within schools. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This project considers educational transformation (i.e., how we might transform those we educate) through a variety of pertinent, yet diverse, lenses. Specifically this paper is situated in the conviction that in order to stop bullying we must affect desire. We ask, then, how philosophical theories of transformation, specifically those regarding changes in dispositions, might contribute to our understanding of school bullying and current strategies aimed at reducing it. In short, the driving question underlying this project simply asks: how can we help the bully to no longer desire to bully?

Free guide and downloads to improve how teacher's assess project based learning. Requires free registration with edutopia to access pdf document.s

Design Features of the Physical Learning Environment  for Collaborative, Project-based Learning. Includes a simple infographic.

Project-based Learning Visual Concept Diagram

The book "Open Educational Resources in Brazil: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Prospects for Development and Innovation"(author - Andreia Inamorato dos Santos)  has been out of print. This is the second IITE publication within the series of case studies summarizing best practices of OER development in non-English-speaking countries. The study contains an overview of the Brazilian educational landscape, national educational policy and the strategies of ICT use in education. The author describes existing open digital content repositories with due emphasis on the copyright situation and considers several examples of successful international OER projects which involved Brazilian partners. The book is destined for those who study OER initiatives and projects on a national scale as well as promotion of OER movement worldwide. 

Teacher Evaluator Training & Certification: Lessons Learned From the Measures of Effective Teaching Project Makes recommendations for the design and implementation of programs to train and certify principals in conducting teacher evaluations, including content, format, and length of training, scoring practice, and criteria for certification tests.

Illuminates the benefits of project-based learning, focussing particularly on its positive effects on motivation, and the role of technology in implementing PBL. 

Comprehensive PBL lesson plan database

Getting started with PBL guide from Microsoft

57 episodes of podcasts about PBL from Edutopia.