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After a couple of nocturnal awakenings with musings (increasingly common
after 40), I must add the following to what I stated in my last
posting that was
done with too much haste.
1 - UVA is to be commended with canon salutes for taking the steps to
make classroom
time for problem-solving. Building the right space begins to force
the issue and the leadership
is clearly forging ahead against the manifold faculty and student
barriers that we have all
encountered. Mr. Jefferson will be proud. Paul Koles, I, and others
are continuously pushing to reduce the entrenched lecture modality
grip here at WSU where we do TBL, but not nearly enough. Med College
of Wisconsin is another example of forging ahead with a 'yes we can'
attitude.
2 - Getting outcomes published for TBL is a priority for all
disciplines using TBL. I commend
our colleagues at the New Jersey medical school who have begun to use
TBL even in a 'small' way. It's a start that is necessary to grow. I
do beg that we all be careful about insuring that TBL (TM) does not go
the way of PBL wherein it is so hard to tell exactly what is done to
yield its outcomes.
Looking forward to the largest gathering of the TBLC in a couple of
days!
Dean
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