Enhancing medical students´ web-based learning environment by a novel problem-based learning system

It is true that Internet has not only expanded our horizons, but also triggered an unprecedented revolution of operating electronization against the traditional method after we entered the 21^st century - also called the age of Internet. In the business area, many enterprises have already achieved the goal of electronic management, saved human resources as well as material consuming, and largely increased the efficiency and effectiveness of managing business. Although in the educational area, adopting the digital learning system cannot make much profits compared to the business area, it still benefits from time efficiency, reduced education costs and problems. The project is a bold exploration which follows the current trend and builds a new type of PBL (Problem Based Learning) Support System which largely differs from the traditional one. It also integrates a high efficiency electronic operating system with teaching management. Our system takes the framework named Bonfire as the basic infrastructure. It uses PHP + MySQL and combines the database and website together so that we can manage, store and present the data to its user. On the learning and teaching level, teachers and students can easily handle their project schedule, and ultimately improve the teaching and learning efficiency. With regards to environmental issues, the system can reduce large amounts of paper consumption which realizes the goal of low carbon production and a more environmental friendly life.