Call for Abstracts - 14th Annual Team-Based Learning Collaborative Meeting

Join us in Fort Worth, Texas for the 14th Annual TBLC Conference!

The Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) is a group dedicated to supporting educators and trainers from a variety of educational & professional development settings that have implemented or wish to implement team-based learning (TBL). Our recent conferences have included educators from a broad range of backgrounds, including medical education, other health-related disciplines, business and social science disciplines, graduate and undergraduate education, professional schools, and K-12 education. We have benefited from everyone’s experience and wisdom as we strive to share teaching resources, mentor one another, and promote the dissemination, evaluation, and scholarship of team-based learning. We invite you to the 14th Annual Conference on Team-Based Learning, which will be held March 7 and 8, 2014 in Fort Worth, Texas, with pre-meeting workshops on March 6, 2014. The Conference presentations take the form of plenary presentations, workshops, oral presentations, and posters.

Important Dates!
09/15: Workshops/Oral Submission Deadline
10/15: Registration Open
11/15: Deadline for Poster Submissions
12/15: Poster Author Notification
01/01: Last Day to Register as a Presenter
01/15: Early Bird Registration Ends
02/15: Last Day for Reduced Hotel rate
03/06: Conference Starts!

You are invited to submit proposal abstracts on any topics relevant to team-based learning. We are asking for abstracts for three different tracks.

Tracks include the following:

Fundamentals track – for novices to TBL to help them learn the essential skills to get a TBL program started at their own institution. An example might include a workshop on facilitation techniques, or “How to Write Good Readiness Assurance Tests” Innovations track – for those who are experienced with TBL to provide information about experiences with particular types of courses or learners or new or innovative techniques. An example might include a poster titled “A TBL Science Course for 9th Graders” or a workshop titled “How to start a Web-Based TBL Course”.

Research/Scholarship track – for those interested in presenting findings from educational research or research studies about TBL. Research submissions may be from descriptive, semi-quantitative (e.g., survey results), or quantitative (e.g., experimental) research. An example might be a workshop entitled “Getting a research program starting in your TBL course” or it could be an oral presentation in which you present research that you have done such as “Evidence of standardized test performance gains in Pharmacy students following implementation of a TBL curriculum”.

The deadline for submission of abstracts for Oral Presentations and Workshops is September 15, 2013.

Abstracts for Poster presentations will be due November 15, 2013.

While we are open to all TBL-related submissions, we are particularly eager to receive submissions focused on non-medical applications of TBL. We look forward to receiving your submissions and hope to see you in Fort Worth in 2014!

Sincerely yours,
Peter Clapp and Rebecca Moote
Program Chairs, TBLC Conference 2014