Dear Theuns - 
Am not in your field, but I think your course will do fine if you follow
the TBL format carefully - see recent pub: 12 TIPS for doing TBL.  You do
not need any team building if you (1) create your teams properly and (2) use
both the split-answer technique for the IRAT and the IFAT cards for the 
GRAT.  Why?  The two combined engenders the kind of within small group
discussion and feedback to create the teams quickly.  Guaranteed.

Dean

Dean Parmelee, M.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
www.med.wright.edu/aa/parmelee.html 


On Mar 30, 2010, at 1:28 AM, Theuns Kotze wrote:

Dear TBL practitioners
 
I want to convert two of my current courses - a course on Services Marketing (+- 70 students) and a course on Research Methods (+- 80 students) - into TBL courses and would like to make contact with colleagues who teach similar courses to exchange ideas. I would specifically appreciate examples of appropriate application exercises to get a sense of how a good application exercise should be structured.
 
The Services Marketing course runs over 7 weeks with one 3 hour contact session per week. Given that learning groups take some time to develop into effective teams, I am concerned that TBL would not be suitable for the Services Marketing course. I would appreciate your guidance in this regard.
 
Are there any "team building" activities that I could do early in the Services Marketing course to help the groups to function more effectively?
 
Kind regards
 
Theuns Kotzé
Dept. of Marketing and Communication Management
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
University of Pretoria
South Africa
 
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