After making the exam scripts for my Introduction to Landscape Architecture course, I was disheartened that the students did poorly, in spite of incorporating Kahoot and Cooperative Learning activities in an Interactive Seminar fashion such as think-pair-share, mind-mapping and reflective practice. This has been the case at my university for exam-based subjects for the past 3 semesters, especially when there is a lot of theory. I have decided that the lecture-activity approach is not working for my undergraduate students. I would like to introduce another pedagogy, the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach which is an established approach at the Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. I also intend to incorporate Blended Learning and e-Learning by maximizing the eLearning platform at my university. This includes providing pre-lesson reading and viewing materials, writing reflections after lessons, participate in discussion forums online, and doing fun quizzes and crosswords.

Within this framework, I will provide slides and video resources before the lesson in a Flip Lesson format. Upon coming to class, the students will be given a Problem Statement to solve pertaining to the topic of the day. For some lessons, they will do a Kahoot quiz to see how far they understand the pre-reading materials. They are then divided into groups of 4 to 5 (30 students in the class) and discuss the solutions to the problem. They can take their time to discuss the solutions after the lesson and upload their presentation slides by the next day. Due to the shortage of time (2 hours per lesson each week), the groups present their solutions on another day.