This looks like a fantastic resource Abby. If I am understanding the site correctly, the data sets section seems to have published, self-contained learning exercises including powerpoints, handouts, exercises and other necessary items to make the activity work (http://tiee.esa.org/vol/v8/issues/data_sets/balch/abstract.html). I'm guessing that the authors listed there are the ones who came up with that teaching exercise. Could we (or do we already have this) set up for people who want to use TBL? This could offer us an opportunity to publish teaching exercises and to have it accepted as a kind of publication on our CVs. Since not all institutions may accept the latter as acceptable publications, I'm mostly I'm concerned about the former. Now, I know I'm new here, so perhaps I'm missing something, but I've noticed that people (including myself) tend to ask "hey has anyone done this" and then people respond to those persons privately to share their ideas. It might be nice to be able to share those more widely so that people don't just keep asking the same "hey has anyone done this?" every few years. (Yes, I have visited the TBL collaborative website and seen the forms that are there for some various fields, but there were none that really applied to what I am teaching...as far as I could tell.) For that reason, I'm proposing that we set up something like the Ecological society did (http://tiee.esa.org/vol/toc_all.html) or like Merlot (http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm) or a teaching wiki that I saw that shared techniques and exercises but cannot remember the name right now. The nice thing about the way the Ecological society did it is that there could be a peer-reviewed publication process which feeds into promotion and tenure. That way professors may be more encouraged to take the time to create and submit a great teaching package that another teacher can just pick up, slightly modify and use it in their courses. The nice thing about a wiki is that people can post stuff immediately and get feedback....perhaps we could have a two-tier process with non-reviewed wiki posts and peer reviewed teaching packages? Also, this resource probably should not be in a membership-only area in order to most widely communicate with other people using or wanting to use TBL. (And, yes, I am willing to help make this happen if my help is needed.) Since I'm teaching the courses I'm teaching for the very first time, I can tell you that this would be a really great resource to people like me who are designing whole classes from scratch under a really tight time frame. And, if what I try this semester works, I'd be happy to share my own materials with the TBL community...I just need somewhere to put them. Anyway, just an idea. Best, Vanessa _____________________ Vanessa Preast, DVM PhD Post-Doctoral Research Associate Iowa State University From: Abby Drake [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 2:00 PM To: Preast, Vanessa A [SOE]; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: TBL and biostatistics One resource that has proved useful to me in the past is TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY -- a peer reviewed publication of ecological educational materials by the Ecological Society of America: http://tiee.esa.org/vol/toc_all.html It has some nice datasets and teaching notes. From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> On Behalf Of Preast, Vanessa A [SOE] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:24 PM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: TBL and biostatistics I'm not doing Bio-statistics, but I am teaching basic educational statistics. I too would be interested in statistics-related application exercises which I might be able to adapt. For my class I'd thought of giving (or having students generate) research questions and datasets and having them identify appropriate statistical tests to answer those research questions. Also I thought of giving them 5 articles and tell them that they're the reviewer (or editor) of the journal. They would need to determine which article gets into the journal because the authors used the most appropriate statistics, implemented the stats properly and made appropriate conclusions. Best, Vanessa ________________________________ From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Abby Drake [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 10:54 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: TBL and biostatistics Hi - I'm also developing a TBL based Biostats class for this fall and would love to see examples! Douglas - as I develop my applications I will happily share them with you. What textbook are you using? Best, Abby From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> On Behalf Of Anderson, Douglas C Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:06 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: TBL and biostatistics If there is anyone using TBL for biostats I would love to see examples of application exercises. -- Sent from Gmail for iPad