Hi Busy month for TBL website.....many updates! 1) A recent New York Times article has highlighted team-based learning and the Medical program at the National University of Singapore - Duke Medical School http://is.gd/wreE 2) Video Archive of TBL 101 Seminar a 40 minute video of Jim Sibley's recent "Introduction to Team-Based Learning" talk that was the first in the Team-Based Learning Collaborative series "Current Topics in Team-Based Learning". http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/v/may11final.html 3) Larry Michealsen and Jim Sibley have created a draft version of a new "rate your TBL course scorecard" http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/course_scorecard .pdf 4) New Articles Espey, M. (2008) "Does Space Matter? Classroom Design and Team-Based Learning" Review of Agricultural Economics, v30 n4 p764-775 Jones, F (2008) Metacognition and Team-Based Learning. Workshop Proceedings: The Role of Metacognition in Teaching Geoscience, November 19-21, 2008 Koles, P., Stolfi, A., Parmelee, D. (2008) Impact of team-based learning on second-year medical students' performance on pathology-based exam questions. Abstract presented at the Central Group of Educational Affairs of the American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Spring Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, April 12, 2008. Michaelsen, L.K., Peterson, T., Sweet, M.S. (2009, in press). Building learning teams: The key to harnessing the power of small groups in management education. In S. Armstrong & C. Fukami (Eds.), Handbook of Managerial Learning, Education, and Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Parmelee, D.X., DeStephen, D., & Borges, N.J. (2009) Medical Students' Attitudes about Team-Based Learning in a Pre-Clinical Curriculum. Medical Education January 2009. Online http://www.med-ed-online.org/volume14.php#Res00280 5) Partial Proceedings from the recent Austin TBL Conference have been posted at http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/?page_id=891 6) the new TBLC site is finished and available at http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/tblc/ I will be bugging you in the upcoming weeks to contribute materials to our case bank....as an incentive we will offer 50% percent off the $50 membership fee and a chance to win a free registration to next years TBL conference Jim Sibley The TBL Web Guy