Dear fellow TBL enthusiasts

Interim results from online TBL survey:

- Later year UG students are the most popular cohort to use TBL with. (PG coursework and secondary school use also observed)

- Most popular field of use is health sciences (36%) followed by business (28%)

- 65% use closed book IRAT/GRAT

- Some supporting technology is very popular (eg. 92% use IFAT ) but only 30% use some type of self and peer assessment software

- Most popular reason for adopting TBL is to engage students in active learning (followed by helping students develop and apply new concepts). Replacing teaching workload does not rank high.

- Most said that they heard about TBL from a colleague

- Half said their early TBL trials were unsupported and relied mostly on Michaelsen et al book and web resources.

- 63% said there were some challenging elements using TBL.

- only 28% say they have access to suitable teaching space

- 48% say TBL would not be used in that course if they weren't teaching it; only 1 claimed that 'there is a shared and wide-spread use of TBL which is not dependent on any individual for its continuation'

Help us get a good picture of TBL by participating in this anonymous survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=RxGWjm_2fGyjQEIMe_2f7A5NBQ_3d_3d) . We aim to present full results at 2009 conference. (Copy and paste the whole URL if it doesn’t link directly). Upon completion you will be able to view the quantitative results up to date

Best wishes with your TBL experiences. And a special thanks to survey participants.

Cheers, Mark

Faculty of Economics and Business

University of Sydney

Australia

From: Mark Freeman
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:59 PM
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Subject: What has been your TBL innovation experience?

Colleagues

At the 2007 TBL conference in Vancouver I presented our research on the TBL innovation experience. Following feedback on its usefulness we are keen to extend this research and map the international landscape surrounding TBL adoption, innovation and support. So we invite you to complete this anonymous survey
(http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=RxGWjm_2fGyjQEIMe_2f7A5NBQ_3d_3d) and upon completion you will be able to view the quantitative results up to date. Once all data has been collected and analysed we plan to share the final results on this listserv and then more widely. Please pass this email to other TBL faculty, developers, technicians, leaders etc who may not be part of this listserv.

If you have any further questions regarding the survey or our research, please don't hesitate to contact the research team at The University
of Sydney, Australia: Mark Freeman [log in to unmask] or Henriikka Clarkeburn [log in to unmask]

And talking of support, Australian adopters would be keen to know that TBL workshops will be held in all capital cities of Australia in August this year when TBL founder Dr Michaelsen is out here as Senior Fulbright Specialist.

Best wishes

Mark

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