David Boud

He's a professor whose specialization area is organisational learning. He has been involved in research and teaching development concerning adult, higher and

professional education for nearly 30 years, and has also contributed extensively to the related literature.

Previously, he held the position of Head of the School of Adult and Language Education at UTS and before that, he was Professor and Founding Director of the Professional Development Centre at the University of New South Wales. From 1998-2003 he was Associate Dean (Research and Development) in the Faculty of Education.

Professor Boud is a member of OVAL Research (http://www.oval.uts.edu.au/ ) and was formerly a convenor of the Key University Research Strength, Research on Adult and Vocational Learning (RAVL) .

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Guadalajara (Jalisco), eventually getting Master's and Doctor's Degrees in Medical Science at the Colima University. He was Coordinator for Continuing Medical Education Coordinator of the Faculty of Medicine at Colima University from 1990 to 1996, later to assume the Director's position at the Faculty of Medicine in the aforementioned University (1996 – 2001). There, he diffused and established the pattern of Problem-Based Learning, which he became closely familiar with in the Faculty of Medicine of McMaster University (Canada), as well as Londrina and Marilia Universities (Brazil). Further on, he became the General Director of Higher Education in Colima University (2001 – 2005), a position that allowed him to keep on diffusing the constructivistic methodologies all over the different academic areas. This is when the design of the Colima University Curricular Academic Standard took place – a pedagogical standard sustained on a humanistic-contextual basis, intended to refurbish the main educational principles for the 21st Century.Dr. Cedillo Nakay is currently the Colima University General Secretary; from this new position, he continues to support and share the experience of curricular innovation.

In 1971, Prof. Font Ribas became licentiate in laws at Barcelona University. In 1973, he studied the course of comparative laws at Amsterdam University (Holland).

In 1976, he became a Doctor in Laws at Barcelona University: three years later, he became the Main Professor of Commercial Laws at the aforementioned University. In 1996, he took the position of Principal of the Commercial, Labour and Social Security Laws Faculty at Barcelona University. In July 2002, he presented the paper “An experience in PBL for the learning of laws” in the Second International Congress: University Teaching and Innovation, which was held in Tarragona (Spain).More information about Dr. Font Ribas - including a bibliography of his published work and an exhaustive list of courses and seminars he has given during his teaching career - can be found in the following link: http://www.ub.es/mercanti/pbl.htm

of more than 10 research and development projects. Dr. Kolmos holds a Ph.D. in "Gender, Technology and Education" (1989).

During the last 8 years, she has researched diverse areas (primarily within engineering education), among which are: Development and evaluation of project organised and problem-based curriculum; Methods to implement ICT in an educational context; Development of work-based learning models for continuing university education; Co-operative skills in product development and in engineering education.

She has recently been appointed as professor and vice director for UCPBL ( UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education Centre for Problem Based Learning), Aalborg University. She is also coordinator for the EU-project, Socrates project, PBL-Engineering which is developing the master programme Problem Based Learning in Engineering and Science ( http://www.mpbl.aau.dk/ ).

An exhaustive list of Dr. Kolmos' publications can be found at: http://www.plan.aau.dk/~ak/#publikationer

Kirsti Hofgaard Lycke

Kirsten H. Lycke, a Professor at the Department of Education at University of Oslo (Norway), has done research and written on higher education for many years, with a special interest in the

implementation and enhancement of PBL. She is President of PEDNETT, the Norwegian Network for Higher Education. She has been President of the International Consortium for Educational Development [ICED - http://www.osds.uwa.edu.au/about/activities/hosted_sites/iced], an international online organization in which she currently keeps a very active profile.