MAILING LISTS

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