Dear Lindsay My experience is that, as educational innovators, we often have to teach our students what good education looks like. We have to explain that good education involves practices that maximize student learning, and that although lectures are good for some things (What's the Use of Lectures is a great book on this topic, by the way), other educational processes produce more learning. Team based learning is one of the most tested and sound educational strategies out there. We need to educate our students (and often our colleagues on tenure and promotion committees) to recognize good teaching and good learning activities when they see them. I'm still learning how to do this. - Don ------- Don McCormick, Ph.D, Associate Professor University of Redlands School of Business 1200 E. Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373-0999 (909) 748-6249 [log in to unmask] http://newton.uor.edu/FacultyFolder/DMcCormick "The end of all education should surely be service to others." - Cesar E. Chavez