Enhancing Thinking Through Problem-based Learning Approaches

Dr. Oon-Seng Tan is Associate Professor and Head of Psychological Studies at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He is also Director of the Singapore Centre for Teaching Thinking. In 2000, he won the Enterprise Challenge Innovator Award from the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore for co-pioneering a project on using PBL for training in the knowledge-based economy. Dr. Tan has published extensively in areas pertaining to cognition and learning, and has been a reviewer for several international journals. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences on PBL and has done extensive consulting work for many universities, multinational corporations and government bodies. He is the main co-author of Educational Psychology: A Practitioner-Researcher-Approach (An Asian Edition) and the main editor of Problem-based Learning: Educational Innovation Across Disciplines.Tan, Oon-Seng is the author of 'Enhancing Thinking Through Problem-based Learning Approaches ' with ISBN 9789812437181 and ISBN 9812437185.