The 2023 TBLC Annual Meeting is right around the corner and the Early Bird Deadline is January 15. Currently, TBLC members can register for $425.00 and non-members can register for $525.00. After the Early Bird Deadline, both rates will increase by $90, costing $515 for our members and $615.00 for non-members. Don’t forget, if you register as a non-member, you can join the collaborative for no extra fee. Be sure to register before this deadline to receive the reduced rate!
When: March 11-14, 2023 Where: Orlando, Florida, USA
The Residence Inn by Marriott Orlando Lake Nona has extended a reduced rate of $179.00 per night to all TBLC Meeting attendees. This special rate is guaranteed until February 11, 2023, so be sure to book your room before then!
After February 11, the hotel cannot guarantee a room for TBLC attendees, so be sure to book your hotel before the cut-off!
The 2023 Annual TBLC Meeting will be held in sunny Orlando, Florida from March 11-14, 2023. New for the in-person meetings is the opportunity to take all five courses required for the Knowledge of the Fundamentals of TBL certificate program! Beginning on Saturday morning, attendees will have the opportunity to complete the program from start to finish and leave the meeting certified in facilitating TBL! The third workshop in the series is Peer Evaluation and Team Development.
Peer Evaluation and Team Development Facilitators: Richard Plunkett – The University of British Columbia Cortny Williams – University of Western States
Peer feedback (PF) is an important component of Team-Based Learning (TBL) that is often overlooked. It is the final practical element of TBL, in which students are expected to provide feedback to their teammates about their contributions to the success of the team. Such feedback provides information to help individual students improve team performance, as well as develop interpersonal and team skills that are essential for future success. It can provide students with a deeper understanding of how their actions not only impact their own learning experience, but their peers’ learning experiences as well. While the literature supports the many advantages of PF in TBL, there aren’t many resources focused on implementing a PF system in a manner that both develops the students’ ability to provide quality feedback and tracks their continuous mastery of this skill.
Learning objectives for Evaluating Multiple Choice Questions include:
Identify characteristics of high and low performing teams
Compare and contrast systems and strategies for facilitating team growth
Apply strategies to empower teams to self-manage performance through peer feedback and evaluation
Identify common errors and barriers to successful teamwork and peer evaluation
Meet The Facilitators
Richard Plunkett University of British Columbia Associate Professor of Biology TBLC Scholarship Committee Chair
As a reminder, the Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC), in collaboration with InteDashboard, is again offering a unique online opportunity to complete all five courses required for the Knowledge of the Fundamentals of TBL certification. The TBL Fundamentals Series begins Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 6:00 PM Eastern and continues through January 26.
What are the workshops included in the series?
Fundamental Principles and Practices of TBL presented Thursday, January 12
Evaluating MCQs for Readiness Assurance Tests and Application Activities presented Tuesday, January 17
Team Dynamics and Peer Evaluation presented Thursday, January 19
Improving Facilitation Skills for a TBL Classroom presented Tuesday, January 24
Creating an Effective TBL Module presented Thursday, January 26
Learn how to convert non-TBL course material into a TBL format
Identify common errors and barriers during TBL module development and learn how to overcome them
Improve your TBL facilitation skills by adopting the key characteristics of effective facilitators
Develop insights into online TBL
How to improve student teamwork for learning effectiveness and engagement
Collaborate with a diverse group of global educators
Learning objectives for each of the workshops can be found at the TBL Fundamental Series site here.
The five online courses offer the same quality content as the face-to-face workshop series, with the added bonus of learning from educators from around the globe. Taught in TBL style, these courses will show attendees effective TBL delivery in the online environment while they build upon their own professional development.
For more information, and to register, click here.
The 2023 Annual TBLC Meeting will be held in sunny Orlando, Florida from March 11-14, 2023. New for the in-person meetings is the opportunity to take all five courses required for the Knowledge of the Fundamentals of TBL certificate program! Beginning on Saturday morning, attendees will have the opportunity to complete the program from start to finish and leave the meeting certified in facilitating TBL! The first workshop in the series is the Fundamental Principles and Practices of TBL.
Fundamental Principles and Practices of TBL Facilitators: Michelle Farland – University of Florida College of Pharmacy Caroline Wilson – Chapman University
This workshop will be an introduction to Team-Based Learning™ (TBL) conducted in the TBL format. Participants will be given a preparatory assignment, divided into teams, given individual and team readiness assurance tests with immediate feedback, and achieve consensus with their team on a set of increasingly challenging application-based questions. The goal of this workshop is for participants to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the fundamental components, sequence of events, and benefits of TBL.
Learning objectives for the Fundamental Principles and Practices of TBL include:
Describe the essential elements of TBL
Explain clearly and concisely how and why TBL works
Evaluate the benefits of using TBL
Meet The Facilitators
Michelle Farland University of Florida Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Immediate Past-President of the TBLC
The Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC), in collaboration with InteDashboard, is again offering a unique online opportunity to complete all five courses required for the Knowledge of the Fundamentals of TBL certification. The TBL Fundamentals Series begins Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 8:00 AM Eastern and continues through January 26.
What are the workshops included in the series?
Fundamental Principles and Practices of TBL presented Thursday, January 12
Evaluating MCQs for Readiness Assurance Tests and Application Activities presented Tuesday, January 17
Team Dynamics and Peer Evaluation presented Thursday, January 19
Improving Facilitation Skills for a TBL Classroom presented Tuesday, January 24
Creating an Effective TBL Module presented Thursday, January 26
Learn how to convert non-TBL course material into a TBL format
Identify common errors and barriers during TBL module development and learn how to overcome them
Improve your TBL facilitation skills by adopting the key characteristics of effective facilitators
Develop insights into online TBL
How to improve student teamwork for learning effectiveness and engagement
Collaborate with a diverse group of global educators
Learning objectives for each of the workshops can be found at the TBL Fundamental Series site here.
The five online courses offer the same quality content as the face-to-face workshop series, with the added bonus of learning from educators from around the globe. Taught in TBL style, these courses will show attendees effective TBL delivery in the online environment while they build upon their own professional development.
For more information, and to register, click here.
The 22nd Annual TBLC Meeting is just around the corner, and we would like you to get to know our keynote sessions! We have three presentations this year and we hope you enjoy each. The first plenary address will be given by Dr. Holly Bender, Professor and Director of the Office of Educational Research and Development (OER&D) at the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine, where TBL is used extensively.
Dr. Holly Bender
Plenary: From Novice to Expert: Rethinking the Role of TBL Prework Date and Time: March 12, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET Presented by: Dr. Holly Bender, DVM, PhD, Diplomate, ACVP Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine (USA)
The notion that “it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert” is often quoted from Malcolm Gladwell’s popular 2008 book Outliers: The Story of Success. Gladwell was referring to the expertise and human performance research of Florida State University professor and cognitive psychologist K. Anders Ericcson. The NY Times called Ericcson “the expert on experts.”
What practices differentiate true experts from what Bereiter and Scardamalia call “experienced non-experts?” Ericcson et al. discovered the method used by the highest performers in fields as diverse as medicine, music, chess, sports, and more. He found that the secret to achieving peak performance and staying on the cutting edge of expertise is a four-step process called “Deliberate Practice.” It is little wonder that TBL helps students become high achievers. Well-designed TBL leverages the principles of deliberate practice.
How might we use deliberate practice to scaffold TBL prework? This session will delve into the four steps of deliberate practice and explore how we can effectively extend its principles into TBL prework. Holly and her team’s research at multiple veterinary colleges and, more recently, student feedback at the University of Arizona’s CVM tell us we are onto something big. Holly is excited to share these findings with you.
We hope you enjoy what we are sure will be a very engaging plenary discussion. Don’t forget, the Early Bird deadline for the Annual Meeting is January 15!
The 22nd Annual TBLC Meeting is just around the corner, and we would like you to get to know our keynote sessions! We have three presentations this year and we hope you enjoy each. One of our plenary addresses will be given by Dr. Changiz Mohiyeddini, Professor and Director of Behavioral Medicine & Psychopathology at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.
Dr. Changiz Mohiyeddini
Plenary: Determinants and Consequences of Engaging and Successful Team-Based Learning Activities for Adolescent and Adult Learners Date and Time: March 13, 2023 at 8:15 AM ET
Team-based learning (TBL) has been increasingly implemented within higher education and in business sectors as a high-quality pedagogical tool over the last decade. In general, TBL is an approach that enables educators to provide opportunities to solve real-life job-related problems and collect authentic professional experiences. However, little is known about the psychological and educational determinants of an engaging and successful TBL and how these can be utilized to predict and achieve the desired outcomes of TBL. This course will provide an evidence-based theoretical framework to understand the main determinants of an engaging and successful TBL, age appropriateness, and feasibility of different strategies.
Dr. Mohiyeddini joined Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine faculty in September 2019 as a Full Professor in the Department of Foundational Medical Studies. He is the director of Behavioral Medicine and Psychopathology. Dr. Mohiyeddini received his PhD in Psychology from the Universidad of Trier (Germany) and his habilitation from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany).
Prior to joining the faculty at OUWB, Dr. Mohiyeddini held senior faculty positions at higher education institutions in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxemburg, England, and the United States. The teaching portfolio of Dr. Mohiyeddini comprises Behavioral Medicine, (Child and Adult) Psychopathology, Brain and Behavior, Clinical-Health Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Counselling Psychology, and Advanced Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. Furthermore, he has extensive expertise in development, evaluation, and management of academic programs and curriculums. Dr. Mohiyeddini’s teaching has been acknowledged with several awards for outstanding teaching throughout his career.
Dr. Mohiyeddini is an experienced psychotherapist and serves as a quantitative and assessment counselor to medical schools and hospitals in Europe to develop, implement, and evaluate community-based educational and health-related clinical projects. Furthermore, he contributed to the advancement of his discipline and the scientific community as a longstanding Editor-in-Chief and member of editorial boards of several international academic journals.
We hope you enjoy what we are sure will be a very engaging plenary discussion.
The Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) invites all educators to attend our 22nd Annual Meeting on Team-Based Learning scheduled for March 11-14, 2023 at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, USA. “Engagement with TBL” will be the central theme for the conference.
Meeting Highlights: Pre-conference workshops are scheduled for March 11 and March 12, 2023. These sessions will provide attendees with the fundamentals of team-based learning, including the creation of modules and effective implementation strategies.
The theme for the 2023 conference is “Engaging with TBL”. The conference will have three plenary addresses presented by experts in the field of TBL. More information on these plenary addresses will be coming soon, so please keep an eye on your email!
The conference will also include hands-on workshops, oral presentations, and poster sessions. While pre-conference Fundamentals workshops will provide attendees with the basics of team-based learning, sessions on Innovation and Research & Scholarship will challenge attendees to further develop their skills or collect, analyze, and publish their work in Team-Based Learning.
The Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) invites all educators to attend our Mid-Year Virtual Forum. The theme for our virtual forum is Evaluation in Team-Based Learning. It’s time to think again! We will continue our program this year with our expert panel, including members of the TBLC leadership, TBL Trainer-Consultants, and other experienced members of the TBL Community.
From left to right are Andrea Bowersox, Neil Haave, Sarah Lerchenfeldt, Will Ofstad, Priti Patel, and Maria Sheakley
When: October 28, 2022 from 2:00 – 3:15 PM EST Panelists: Andrea Bowersox, Neil Haave, Sarah Lerchenfeldt, Will Ofstad, Priti Patel, and Maria Sheakley. Moderated by Julie Estis. Session Description: In this fast-paced session, you’ll hear rapid-fire talks from experienced TBL researchers and practitioners on how they approach peer evaluation and what we can learn from research on peer evaluation. They will share key takeaways and resources for further exploration.
To learn more about our sessions about better grading, effective peer evaluation, and equitable grading, visit www.TBLCvirtualforum.org.
The 2022 Mid-Year Virtual Forum is this week! We will soon be announcing a special deal for the TBLC 2023 Annual Meeting for those registered for the Virtual Forum. Keep an eye on your email for details!
The Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) invites all educators to attend our Mid-Year Virtual Forum. Research is showing that traditional grading systems are ineffective when it comes to properly assessing student performance in the classroom. This Virtual Forum aims to take a deep dive into evaluation practices and introduce new methods that better serve both students and educators. We hope you join us next Friday, October 28 from 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET as we think again about evaluation in team-based learning.
