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Dilemma-Based Learning
The Dilemma-Based Learning (DiBL) approach will help students to improve their group skills, as enquiries are based upon a joint quest, in the belief that several thinkers working together are more effective than just one. This approach will enable students to implement tools and techniques that will: (1) Allow students to practise and develop skills they can use throughout their lives to make considered decisions, (2) including skills of reflection, enquiry, logical and analytical thinking and considering multiple solutions, (3) improve students' ability to work with others as part of an effective group, (4) encourage whole-class and group discussion that will challenge and stretch students' thinking, (5) give students skills that they can use in other subjects to raise performance, such as creative thinking and reasoning.

Debate-Based Learning
The Debate-Based Learning (DeBL) approach enable students to work cooperatively, brainstorm ideas, develop vocabulary and read to support an opinion. Through researching students summarize, question, and clarify information. Students identify chief ideas, deleting less important information, collapsing, categorizing, and labeling information. Questioning allows students to explain and to explore additional facts for clarification purposes. These comprehension skills are essential for students to become competent readers and writers linking debates directly to the entire curriculum. Debates allow students to become more proficient in speaking, researching, reading, and writing skills, and they promote reasoning as well as communication skills. Fact-filled and passionate debates provide the incentive for students of all academic and socioeconomic levels to become engaged and to participate in the debate process. In addition, debates, both formal and informal, are a vehicle for students to express their opinions assertively in a respectful manner on a relevant issue or topic.

Problem-Based Learning
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a student-centered instructional strategy in which students collaboratively solve problems and reflect on their experiences. Characteristics of PBL are: (1) Learning is driven by challenging, open-ended problems. (2) Students work in small collaborative groups. (3) Teachers take on the role as "facilitators" of learning. Accordingly, students are encouraged to take responsibility for their group and organize and direct the learning process with support from a tutor or instructor. Advocates of PBL claim it can be used to enhance content knowledge and foster the development of communication, problem-solving, and self-directed learning skill.

Case-Based Learning
Case-Based Learning (CBL) approach engages students in discussion of specific situations, typically real-world examples. This method is learner-centered, and involves intense interaction between the participants. Case-Based Learning focuses on the building of knowledge and the group works together to examine the case. The instructor's role is that of a facilitator and the students collaboratively address problems from a perspective that requires analysis. Much of Case-Based Learning involves learners striving to resolve questions that have no single right answer.