Dr. Rajalingam:  yours is a complex question--and can be answered only in the context of your entire curriculum.    One rough guideline  that our students have shared with me over the last 10 years of TBL is that for each 2-3 hours of in-class TBL ( RAP and applications), the average student spends 6-8 hours learning the advance assignment .  The best students might get ready in 4 hours, the academically challenged ones may require 10.    The answer to "how many RAPs and applications per week?" depends on "How much independent study time do students need to learn content that is NOT delivered through the TBL strategy?"  Paul Koles
  
On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Preman Rajalingam (Dr) wrote:

Hi everyone,

We're developing a medical curriculum that will be taught primarily using TBL. One of the topics that keeps coming up in our discussions is "how much TBL is too much TBL?" I completely accept that for TBL to be successful the applications should be the focus of the learning. But was wondering how this gets operationalized into the hours taken for the prework, RAPs and applications. Would love to hear from all of you who have already successfully implemented TBL.

- How many TBL sessions do your students do each week?

- How much time do students need to spend on prework to prepare for each TBL session?

- How much time does each RAP (iRAT/ tRAT) take?

- How many RAPs do your students do each week?

- How much time does each Application take?

- How many Applications do your students do each week?

Cheers,
Preman Rajalingam, PhD
Faculty Development
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine 

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