Hey Everyone, I hope everyone is having a nice summer! This summer I am helping out with an undergraduate educational psychology class called Cognition, Human Learning and Motivation, using Team-Based Learning. As an exercise, we asked teams to "concept map" the relationships between TBL and the learning concepts we have talked about in the course. (Individuals were given a night to prepare their own concept maps, and then teams created integrated concept maps in class.) As so frequently happens with TBL, the students exceeded my expectations, discussing which pieces should link to what, and making wonderful connections among many course concepts. After each team had made a map, students "gallery walked" the other team's maps and made comments and asked each other questions. We were originally going to use butcher paper for this, but had to use the chalkboard instead. We are glad we did, because the teams came up with enormous maps that would not have fit on butcher paper! This exercise absolutely made my day. I have attached one of the better maps, so you can get a sense of the connections undergraduates made between human learning concepts and TBL, if you are interested. Sorry for the large size--I wanted to make sure those who are interested could read what the students wrote. -M Michael Sweet ~FAST Tex Assistant Program Manager Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment Center for Instructional Technologies The University of Texas at Austin GSB 2.130 Mail Code: B8000 Austin, TX. 78712 http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/