Hi Everyone, I recently stumbled across a copy of the new Team-Based Learning book and I'm ready to take the plunge for my intro graduate-level Information Systems Principles course this Fall. While a major component of TBL, I find little description of class discussion in the TBL book. I'd value people's responses to a few questions: - Is class discussion following simultaneous reporting just like normal class discussion, where someone raises their hand and I call on them (but hopefully with more participation than usual)? Or have TBL instructors developed different techniques and approaches to class discussion. - The TBL book discusses "Fishbowl Discussions" in Appendix "C" as part of a team-building exercise in the first class, during which the students come up with the grade weights. In fishbowl discussions each team designates a member who represents the team. The designated members from each team debate each other in front of the class. Is this the only occasion when one would recommend a fishbowl discussion, or would people recommend using it more extensively throughout the semester? - Are there any references to class discussion in TBL-based classrooms? Thanks! Looking forward to an interesting semester :-) Cheers, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Bieber, Associate Professor - Collaborative Hypermedia Research Lab (Co-Director) - IS Ph.D. Program (Director) - Digital Library Service Integration Project (PI) Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://web.njit.edu/~bieber AOL/Yahoo Instant Messenger: profbieber Phone: (973) 596-2681 FAX: (973) 596-5777 [email preferred] Information Systems Department (http://is.njit.edu/) College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology 5500 Information Technology Center University Heights, Newark, New Jersey 07102-1982 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------