"The key feature of project-based learning is that students develop autonomy and responsibility for their learning."But how to support students with "newly gained freedom and autonomy"to"overcome and solve their problems and difficulties"[1]is still a challenging question to students and teachers. This paper aims to develop a self-help learning and instructing framework shared by teachers and students, which will be a digital application prototype to assist teachers to provide guidance and support for students to overcome learning difficulties by themselves in project-based learning. The results of students questionnaire show that the self-help framework is an effective way of fostering students' learning skills such as cooperation, communication and reflection, which defined by PBL. More importantly, it freed teachers from 'teaching' knowledge and skills to observing, auditing, reacting from time to time with students as a more democratic role, in which students got more chances to learn by themselves in classroom, in another word, more actively, autonomously and independently. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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