Dear All, I second Jim's comments. I'm also attaching a table from an article that will appear later this year in Davidson, N., Major, C., & Michaelsen, L. (Eds.). (2014). Small-group learning in higher education: Cooperative, collaborative, problem-based, and team-based learning. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 25(4). In all, there will be four TBL-related articles in this special issue. Also, I have permission from the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching editors to post the entire article in which the attached table will appear along with the table of contents for the special issue on the TBL web site. That should happen in the next few days. Larry On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Sibley, James Edward <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hi > > I tutored PBL in our medical school here to really understand the PBL > pedagogy...and my partner Amanda used to train the PBL tutors for medicine > > *Similarities* > > I think both are similar with they are not surface learning methods...both > go deep > > Both get some impressive team cohesion > > With PBL tutor feedback there are often noticeable changes and > improvements in PBL student behaviours and contributions > > With PBL and the being thrown into unstructured problems...students do > need to find their own to the foundational vocabulary > > PBL does a nice metacognition and information literacy piece with > leaving one tutorial with specific questions (learning issues), doing > targeted research and then bring back your research and through discussion > reintegrating it into the groups current understanding of the problem > > I am actually quite a fan of PBL...but it is a resource nightmare (our > medical school uses 70 tutors - 70 tutorial rooms on > Monday/Wednesday/Fridays for two hours each day to tutor the PBL groups of > 8)....if you had buckets of money...PBL might be a good choice > > *Why TBL is actually better* > > There is another important piece that TBL gets to leverage and PBL > doesn't....once you have a had the Application Activity intra team discussion > (PBL groups have similar discussion in a PBL tutorial)...with the TBL public > report of your decision/findings to other teams and then you get to have > that wonderful give and take conversation....to get to deeper learning and a > larger more powerful social consensus...PBL misses that > > The classroom efficiency of TBL (we do it in classes of 200 with just > the instructor)....and that deeper larger social consensus generated make me > pick TBL every time > > jim > > > -- > Jim Sibley > Director pubically > Centre for Instructional Support > Faculty of Applied Science > University of British Columbia > 2205-6250 Applied Science Lane > Vancouver, BC Canada > V6T 1Z4 > > Phone 604.822.9241 > Fax 604.822.7006 > > Email: *[log in to unmask]* > > Check out *www.teambasedlearning.org <http://www.teambasedlearning.org>* > > > (c) Copyright 2014, Jim Sibley, All rights reserved The information > contained in this e-mail message and any attachments (collectively > "message") is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the > recipient (or recipients) named above. If the reader of this message is > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received > this message in error and that any review, use, distribution, or copying of > this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, > please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, and delete the meesage. > > From: Sandra Schonwetter <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Sandra Schonwetter <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Monday, March 24, 2014 6:27 AM > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: the difference between TBL and PBL > > Hi there TBLers, > > A question that keeps coming up is, "What is the difference between TBL > and PBL?" My answer is that both are under the umbrella of 'the flipped > classroom'. Some similarities are: both priortize time to the application > of content, both depend on students taking initiative and being accountable > for their learning. One difference is that TBL is more structured than PBL. > > I'd like to hear more responses to this question. > Thanks, > Sandra Schonwetter > > Educational Specialist > > Department of Medical Education > > 260 Brodie Centre, > > 272B 727 McDermot Avenue > > R3E 3P5 > > email: [log in to unmask] > > phone: (204) 272-3172 > > fax: (204) 480-1372 > -- ******************************* Larry K. Michaelsen, Professor of Management Dockery 400G, University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 660/543-4315 voice, 660/543-8465 fax For info on: Team-Based Learning (TBL) <www.teambasedlearning.org> Integrative Business Experience (IBE) <http://ucmo.edu/IBEl<http://faculty.ucmo.edu/ibe/home.html> > *******************************