. . . by the way the Membership committee is the committee tasked with initiating and organizing things to provide members with as much value as possible for their dues.
Your energy and ideas to pursue grant funding would certainly be that--we'd love to have you lead the charge!
Hope you take the plunge.
-M
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sweet, Michael S
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 3:44 AM
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Great ideas, Bill!
Would love to have you join the Collaborative and join the Membership committee.
-M
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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Goffe
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 9:29 PM
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Subject: Re: TBLC Website update
On this topic, while it is terribly easy to make suggestions, how about looking into a grant to supply initial funding to help make TBLC self-supporting? In part, I was thinking of what is described in "The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning" http://chronicle.com/article/The-Quiet-Revolution-in-Open/127545/ .
Note the emphasis on "open" tools as well as the large amount of government funding that apparently is becoming available.
In addition, I understand that these foundations are interested in improving learning in higher education:
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/about-us/about-carnegie
Lumina Foundation
http://www.luminafoundation.org/
Teagle Foundation
http://www.teaglefoundation.org/
I would think that if one of the above support TBL it would be a strong positive signal to those thinking of adopting TBL.
Also, http://www.utexas.edu/academic/ctl/largeclasses/#tbl is a great intro to TBL and I could see it being a strong part of a grant proposal.
I'd be happy to help.
- Bill
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