Members of the Team-Based Learning Listserv:
We have two exciting announcements to make about team-based learning
(TBL) and we are sending them first to you who have signed up to the TBL
listserv.
- Book
: Praeger has now published the book on TBL that Larry
Michaelsen, Arletta Knight, and I have been working on for the last 3
years. Title: Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small
Groups (in college teaching).
- Website
: We have added videostreaming to the TBL website, showing
material from Larry Michaelsen's class where he uses team-based learning.
We have edited 4-6 minute sections on 11 different topics related to TBL.
In each of these, Larry talks for a minute or so about that topic, and
then we show how that topic operates in a real class. URL:
www.teambasedlearning.org;
click on the "Video Demonstration" button.
A couple of comments about the book.
- Content
: The first part of the book has four chapters
about team-based learning (TBL); the second part has 10 chapters
by teachers who have used it very successfully in a variety of contexts
(=the “Voices of Experience”). The final chapter, by Arletta, summarizes
the lessons that we can learn from the experiences of these ten teachers,
about the value of and about different ways of using TBL.
- Value
: Our hope is that the book will be a major resource for
anyone thinking about using TBL. It has the best available comments on
what TBL is, what teachers need to do to make it operate effectively,
descriptions of teachers using it in multiple contexts (different subject
matter, with different kinds of students, large classes, in international
situations, with online learning, etc.), and appendices that contain a
variety of useful materials.
- Cost: The publisher, Praeger, made a decision which we
didn’t learn about until very late in the process, to print and market
only a hardcover, reference book for libraries (or perhaps faculty
development centers). For this reason, it is priced at a rate for that
category of books: $68 a copy. We are in the process right now of
negotiating a release of the paperback rights to another publisher, where
it can be published at price that individuals can afford ($25). But that
won’t happen for several months.
- Our suggestion
: Get a copy in your library or in your faculty
development center now; wait for the paperback before encouraging
individual faculty to get their own copy.
Forward to Interested Colleagues: Feel free to forward this
email and information to any colleauges you think might be
interested.
If you have questions or reactions about any of this, please send them to
us via the team learning listserv: [log in to unmask] That way,
everyone can hear the question and the answer.
Enjoy!
Dee Fink
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L. Dee Fink,
Director Phone:
405-325-2323
Hester Hall, Room
203 FAX:
405-325-7402
University of Oklahoma