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Introduction: Meet the Problem

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Role and Situation
Learners engage with this problem as Commissioners with the Buffalo Commons Commission appointed by the President and charged with sorting out and making sense of this complex issue.

Major Learning Outcomes
Learners who explore this Interactive PBL Experience will:

• Experience problem-based learning as a learner from within a problematic situation.
  
• Appreciate the interconnectedness of an ill-structured problem and all its complexity.
  
• Engage in cycles of inquiry, reflection, and question generation.
  
• Explore a number of information sources, opening up multiple ways of knowing.
  
• Gain a sense of the whole of a PBL experience.

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