Many recent models of learning and instruction center learning on real-world tasks and problems to support knowledge application and transfer. Among these models are problem-based learning and task-centered learning, two different approaches to learning that are often mistaken for one another. However, there are important distinctions between these two approaches to learning with regard to epistemological influences, goals, and prescriptions. In this article the authors provide a description of task-centered learning and differentiate it from the concept of problem-based learning. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)