Meetings & Other Events


Past Keynotes

Below we provide an overview of the keynote speakers of past business meetings at AERA.

Year Speaker Affiliation Title
2023 Emily E. Virtue and Brandi Hinnant-Crawford    Leveraging Equity Pedagogy in PBL Settings
2022 Nell Duke University of Michigan Curricularizing Project-Based Learning
2021 Diana H. J. M. Dolmans Maastricht University, the Netherlands

How can we look at PBL practice and research differently?

2019 Susan M. Bridges The University of Hong Kong Multimodality in problem-based curricula: Scaling up interactional ethnographic research
2018 Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver Indiana University Facilitating problem-based learning
2017 Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands The two faces of problem-based learning
2016 Woei Hung, Nada Dabbagh, Mahnaz Moallem   The Landscape of PBL: History,
research, and practice reflected through
the Wiley Handbook of PBL
2015 Clark Chinn Rutgers University The quality of arguments in problem-based and inquiry learning environments
2014 Janet L. Kolodner Georgia Institute of Technology  
2013      
2012 David Gijbels University of Antwerp, Belgium  
2011 Joan Herman UCLA Next Generation Assessments & PBL: A Discussion with Joan Herman
2010
Denis Bédard
University of Sherbrooke