Hi Tricia, I teach animal ethics using TBL and have found it to be highly effective. I've just had a paper on 2 years of use in a 1st year course published in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, if anybody is interested I'm happy to forward a copy. This year as an application exercise I had 2 components. In the first (which I used successfully last year) I got students in the first week of classes to write on the back of a postcard (we get free postcards in cafes and I pick up relevant ones whenever I see them) a response to the question 'Do you think we should use animals to test treatments to improve human health?' In the animal ethics section since it's not a philosophy course I use a chapter of a book that lists 5 main ethical frameworks that can be used. I select phrases that would represent different pure or mixed frameworks and then ask them a question like 'Which of the following best represents a utilitarian response to the question? and give them 5 choices from the student responses. I use the flash cards in class for reporting. The new application this year was a modification of something that was OK last year but I thought could work better. I asked students to choose between 5 different research proposals for funding of 10 million dollars and to think about which ethical framework had most influenced their decision (eg utilitarian for a mouse model of breast cancer, respect for nature with a project to save an endangered Sumatran rhino in Borneo). Last year I got them to choose only one, and then they verbally reported. This year I wrote each project on a poster, and then had 5 areas on the poster for the 5 different ethical frameworks to place post-it notes. Students wrote on the post-it notes 2 reasons why they would choose to fund each project, and then had to work out which ethical framework/s their reasons would fit under. It led to a really rich discussion, and was interesting as with some projects there were post-it notes across all 5 but with others only 2 were selected. I wonder if it may be possible for you to modify these ideas in your own context? Hopefully this will give you some new ideas at least. Good application activities are a challenge, but a lot of fun to think about and work on. Best wishes, Susan Susan Hazel BVSc BSc(Vet) PhD GradCert (Public Health) MANZCVSc Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Welfare and Ethics School of Animal & Veterinary Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE Roseworthy SA 5371 Australia Ph : +61 8 8313 7828 Fax : +61 8 8313 7972 e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: This message may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you think it was sent to you by mistake, please delete all copies and advise the sender. For the purposes of the SPAM Act 2003, this email is authorised by The University of Adelaide. Think green: read on the screen. [Untitled-10.jpg]<http://www.sciences.adelaide.edu.au/e-science> From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bertram Gallant, Tricia Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2013 9:16 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: ethics team application activities Hi folks - I implemented TBL for the first time this term in a "personal ethics at work" class (business school) and it's not going as well as I had hoped, and I think largely due to the fact that I didn't have good application activities for the teams. The ones I created (e.g., case analyses to apply knowledge) seem to have encouraged the teams to not work together but have individuals do different parts of the case analysis on their own; in other words, they do not talk about it, debate it and come up with a team decision before the report out. Does anyone have a sample that they would be willing to share of a really good application activity that I might find helpful as a model for an ethics class? I think I'm having trouble envisioning what it would look like so that I can effectively design them for each of my 6 course units. thanks in advance, Tricia