Team-Based Learning (TBL)

Team-Based Learn­ing isn’t just anoth­er name for group learn­ing and how to do group work. Team-Based Learn­ing (TBL) is a well-researched and doc­u­ment­ed process for struc­tur­ing learn­ing expe­ri­ences for stu­dents in both f2f and online envi­ron­ments. If you are new to TBL or need a refresh­er, check out the fol­low­ing “get-start­ed” mate­ri­als. Team-Based Learn­ing is a unique form of small group learn­ing that is a ver­sion of a ‘flipped class­room’ with a spe­cif­ic set of struc­tures to design your entire course. TBL is about stu­dent teams mak­ing deci­sions about con­cepts and prob­lems and then pub­licly com­mit­ting to those deci­sions and get­ting focused feed­back.

Essentials of TBL

• Get­ting Start­ed in Team-Based Learn­ing https://teambasedlearning.site-ym.com/page/started
• What is TBL? UBC Web­page
• Com­pact Intro­duc­tion to Team-Based Learn­ing by B. Rober­son and L. Michaelsen — Link
• Intro­duc­tion to TBL by Jim Sib­ley https://cdn.ymaws.com/teambasedlearning.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Docs/TBL-handout_February_2014_le.pdf
• Arti­cle about Jonelle Knowles (VIU instruc­tor) who used team-based learn­ing in her hos­pi­tal­i­ty class — Web­page
• Video that explains TBL in 12 min­utes (what it is and why it is so pow­er­ful)

Team-Based Learn­ing from Cen­ter for Teach­ing and Learn­ing on Vimeo.

Some of the key authors and researchers in TBL have been exper­i­ment­ing and imple­ment­ing TBL in a dig­i­tal envi­ron­ment. Here is a col­lec­tion of the key sites to explore.

Jim Sibley

Retired Engi­neer­ing Pro­fes­sor and Direc­tor of the Cen­tre for Instruc­tion­al Sup­port in the Fac­ul­ty of Applied Sci­ence at UBC who facil­i­tat­ed Team-Based Learn­ing Work­shop at NIC in late June, 2017, has wrote a and numer­ous arti­cles on team-based learn­ing and has been sup­port­ing fac­ul­ty for decades about how to do TBL

• Web­site: https://learntbl.ca/
• What is TBL? https://learntbl.ca/what-is-tbl/
• TBL Online: Some Ideas from Jim https://learntbl.ca/tbl-online/ — with accor­dion sec­tions of key infor­ma­tion as you scroll down the page you can get a quick overview of how you might do this online

Michele Clark

Uni­ver­si­ty of Neva­da Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in Psy­choso­cial Nurs­ing who eval­u­ates the effi­ca­cy of team-based learn­ing as a teach­ing strat­e­gy in improv­ing the stu­dents’ appli­ca­tion of new learn­ing con­tent in solv­ing com­plex clin­i­cal prob­lems

• Michele’s site “Team-Based Learn­ing in an Online Envi­ron­ment” has prac­ti­cal steps and exam­ples for how to do TBL in a both a syn­chro­nous and asyn­chro­nous envi­ron­ment https://sites.google.com/site/tbladvantageschallenges/welcome-video

Brian O’Dwyer

For­mer con­sult­ing, bank­ing and air­line CFO who went to teach­ing air­line man­age­ment and real­ized that lec­tures and class­es need­ed an over­haul – so took the work of Duke Med­ical School and found­ed Cog­nalearn, a com­pa­ny that helps teach­ers replace lec­tures with Team-Based Learn­ing and cre­at­ed the cloud soft­ware called InteDash­board – lots of oth­er help­ful com­po­nents to this site to doing dig­i­tal TBL

• Web­site with ideas and videos about imple­ment­ing online team-based learn­ing https://www.blog.intedashboard.com/implementing-team-based-learning-on
• Mov­ing Team-Based Learn­ing (TBL) online to a remote set­ting: Fac­ul­ty Guide https://www.blog.intedashboard.com/tbl-in-online-modality
• Team-Based Learn­ing in Online Modal­i­ty — FAQs https://www.blog.intedashboard.com/implementing-team-based-learning-fa

MICHELE CLARK AND BRIAN O’DWYER and many oth­ers wrote a white paper which sum­ma­rizes a lot of good ideas for imple­ment­ing online TBL

• “Off to On: Best Prac­tices for Online Team-Based Learn­ing” : http://www.teambasedlearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Off-to-On_OnlineTBL_WhitePaper_ClarkEtal2018_V3.pdf