{"id":128466,"date":"2021-06-30T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=128466"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:42","slug":"esls-problem-based-learning-methods-are-being-revised-the-quality-of-our-programmes-wont-be-negatively-affected-by-larger-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/06\/30\/esls-problem-based-learning-methods-are-being-revised-the-quality-of-our-programmes-wont-be-negatively-affected-by-larger-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL is reforming problem-based learning: ‘Quality won’t be negatively effected by larger groups’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting from next academic year, the Erasmus School of Law (ESL) will reform the teaching methods it uses in its bachelor\u2019s programmes and increase group size. Second and third-year students in particular will be required to work independently more often. Deans of Education Harri\u00ebt Schelhaas and Maarten Verbrugh are very excited about the upcoming changes. They believe that the classes will become more varied and do a better job of preparing students for a subsequent master\u2019s degree, if they choose to get one.<\/p>\n

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For years now, ESL has used the problem-based learning method in its degree programmes, because the faculty feels that it activates students and gets them to really think about issues. In seminars featuring the problem-based learning method, students tackle a case study under a tutor\u2019s supervision. However, the method will be modified starting from next academic year. Groups will become bigger, with fourteen rather than ten students per group in Years 1 and 2, and up to twenty students per group in Year 3.<\/p>\n

Group size is not the only thing that will undergo some change, though. Several courses will be overhauled as well. \u201cFor instance, in the bachelor\u2019s degree in Law we have merged three courses: trade law, corporate law and labour law. From now on, they will be one new subject, called Law & Company, in which students will visit companies and solve real-life legal issues,\u201d says ESL\u2019s Dean of Education for bachelor\u2019s degree programmes, Harri\u00ebt Schelhaas.<\/p>\n\n\t

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