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EOS-SEI: Team Based Learning (TBL)
Two courses in EOS employ some aspects of TBL - eosc350 (Environmental, Geotechnical and Exploration Geophysics I) and eosc212 (Topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences). There are many TBL resources on the internet, and some of the best are at UBC. Here are some pointers:
- TBL resources page at the Centre for Intstructional Support, Faculty of Applied Sciences, UBC, including audio and video introductions.
- A two page introduction to TBL on the above website.
- That website also includes (a) a checklist for TBL course development, and (b) a handout for Student Orientation.
- The (excellent!) primary centre of development of TBL is at www.teambasedlearning.org.
What is TBL?
Two features distinguish Team-Based Learning from other forms of teaching with small groups and make it an especially powerful form of teaching and learning:
- "Teams" are distinct from and more powerful than "Groups".
- The elements of the TBL strategy are mutually self-supporting; hence, the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts.
The outline of TBL, from www.teambasedlearning.org, gives a few more details about these two important characteristics of the TBL teaching/learning strategy:
