It's back to school time again, so I thought I might share one of the frequently asked questions I get in many of my workshops. The question usually goes something like this: My incoming students don't know about PBL or working in that type of environment. They come to me with poor work habits and they're certainly not self-directed learners. How do we get them to understand how this environment works? Surely you don't just throw them into a big project? [...]