Friday, August 21, 2015
TBLC-Affiliated International Conference - "Leading Educational Change"
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the first TBLC-affiliated International Conference will take place on Wednesday 21st October 2015 at the University of Bradford in the UK.
The conference will take the theme of Leading Educational Change. We are delighted that both Professor Shirley Alexander, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Technology, Sydney and Dr Michael Nelson, President Elect of the Team Based Learning Collaborative and Department Chair for Pharmaceutical Studies at Regis University, Colorado will be joining us to deliver the keynote and chair the presentation session respectively.
We are offering both a fundamentals track for those new to Team Based Learning (TBL) and one for people with some understanding or experience of TBL called Beyond the Basics. For further details check our provisional programme.
Please submit your abstract for either a 15 minute oral presentation or a poster presentations by Friday 4th September.
Tickets cost £90 early bird/£125 standard (from 1st September)
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW
Please direct any queries to Beck McCarter: r.m.mcarter@bradford.ac.uk
Please feel free to circulate this invitation to other colleagues at your institution and throughout your networks.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
TBLC Call for Workshop Abstracts
Dear Colleagues,
The Team Based Learning Collaborative extends a warm welcome to join them for their 15th annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 3-5, 2016 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town.
Abstracts are currently welcomed for Workshop presentation formats.
Workshops will be accepted within one of three tracks:
Learners will acquire knowledge and skills for implementation of effective TBL. Target audience: educators with less than 3 years experience using TBL or educators who want to become more effective in practicing the essentials of TBL.
Innovations and Applications Track:
Learners will acquire knowledge and skills for using TBL in specific educational settings or in a specific academic discipline. Creative innovations that remain consistent with TBL principles are encouraged.
Target audience: educators who are currently using TBL and who desire to improve their practice by interacting with those in similar educational roles, disciplines, or settings.
Scholarship and Research Track:
Learners will acquire knowledge and skills to critically evaluate the educational process and outcomes of TBL. Workshops emphasizing either qualitative or quantitative research methods are preferred.
Target audience: educators who want to study the TBL process and communicate findings in a scholarly manner, e.g. peer-reviewed publications.
For which of the following tracks is your workshop intended?
Requirements to be included in workshop proposal
The Team Based Learning Collaborative extends a warm welcome to join them for their 15th annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 3-5, 2016 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town.
Abstracts are currently welcomed for Workshop presentation formats.
Workshops will be accepted within one of three tracks:
- Fundamentals Track
- Innovations & Applications track
- Scholarship & Research Track
Learners will acquire knowledge and skills for implementation of effective TBL. Target audience: educators with less than 3 years experience using TBL or educators who want to become more effective in practicing the essentials of TBL.
Innovations and Applications Track:
Learners will acquire knowledge and skills for using TBL in specific educational settings or in a specific academic discipline. Creative innovations that remain consistent with TBL principles are encouraged.
Target audience: educators who are currently using TBL and who desire to improve their practice by interacting with those in similar educational roles, disciplines, or settings.
Scholarship and Research Track:
Learners will acquire knowledge and skills to critically evaluate the educational process and outcomes of TBL. Workshops emphasizing either qualitative or quantitative research methods are preferred.
Target audience: educators who want to study the TBL process and communicate findings in a scholarly manner, e.g. peer-reviewed publications.
For which of the following tracks is your workshop intended?
Requirements to be included in workshop proposal
- Title of workshop
- Organizer and co-leaders: for each person who will facilitate the workshop, submit name, degree, institution, email, phone, and qualifications for leading the workshop. Designate one person to communicate with the program committee. Please note that only registered participants will be listed within the final Conference Program.
- Purpose and rationale of the workshop (Workshops proposed for fundamentals track ONLY: Submit learners’ evaluations of a previous workshop you have done on this topic.)
- Specific learning objectives of the workshop (behavioral)
- Intended audience
- Format: the method that leaders will use during the workshop; include description of how essential elements of TBL will be incorporated.
- Detailed schedule of workshop activities, with each segment in minutes, including breaks (assume total duration of 120 minutes).
- Advance assignments for participants (optional)
- Products and materials: what each participant will receive and keep
- Assessment: provide the instrument learners will use to evaluate the workshop
- Audio-visual requirements: provide a list. NOTE: This will be confirmed by the Admin Planning Team as to availability.
- Number of participants: provide the maximum number you will accept
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Connect With TBLC on Social Media
Dear Colleagues,
Stay up to date with all of the latest TBLC news and meeting updates by subscribing to TBLC on social media! TBLC can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Please see details below!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeamBasedLearning
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TBLearning
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Teambased-Learning-8118370
For updates on the upcoming 15th Annual TBLC Meeting, which will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 2-4, 2016, please visit www.teambasedlearning.org
Join us for the 2015 TBLC Regional Workshop in Seattle, Washington on October 10, 2015!
Thank you, TBLC Admin Team
Stay up to date with all of the latest TBLC news and meeting updates by subscribing to TBLC on social media! TBLC can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Please see details below!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeamBasedLearning
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TBLearning
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Teambased-Learning-8118370
For updates on the upcoming 15th Annual TBLC Meeting, which will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 2-4, 2016, please visit www.teambasedlearning.org
Join us for the 2015 TBLC Regional Workshop in Seattle, Washington on October 10, 2015!
Thank you, TBLC Admin Team
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Call for Research Roundup
Hello members of TBLC –
We would like to announce that our fall newsletter will focus on research! The decision to do so is the result of our TBLC survey taken at the 14th annual TBLC conference held in Florida. Our Survey informed us of two important points:
1.) a large percentage of members are interested in learning about articles and research studies being completed in our collaborative and
2.) Members want to consult among other members for partnership in research. We are hoping the fall newsletter will provide information on both of these areas.
One section in the newsletter will be called ‘Research Roundup’ and will consist of articles about TBL written in the last 2 years by members of the TBLC community. We are asking you to send us any article(s) utilizing TBL in which you have been an author. Please send the citation (authors, year, title, journal, volume, and pages) and a one to three sentence long explanation of the project. The deadline for submission is September 18, 2015. This will be a wonderful opportunity to disseminate your article to others who are interested in learning about what you are doing with TBL, as well as publicize your findings to those are outside of your field of expertise! Please send all submissions to support@tblcadmin.org with the subject heading “Research Roundup” Additionally, if you have found a particularly good article on TBL that you are not an author of, we are planning on putting a bibliography page on our website with these articles. Please feel free to send us the citation (authors, year, title, journal, volume, and pages).
Our second section in the newsletter will be called ‘Interest in Collaboration.’ If you are interested in collaborating with others, we will need you to send us your name, email address, the topic you are interested in collaborating with others on, a draft research question if you have one (not critical), your discipline, the design (qualitative or quantitative), and who you would like to collaborate with (e.g. another discipline, someone with expertise in a specific design) and any other information you feel is pertinent.
The deadline for this will also be no later than September 18, 2015. Please send all submissions to support@tblcadmin.org with the subject heading “Interest in Collaboration” We look forward to hearing about what research our members have been involved in and identifying members who are interested in collaborating to increase the presence of TBL in the literature!
We would like to announce that our fall newsletter will focus on research! The decision to do so is the result of our TBLC survey taken at the 14th annual TBLC conference held in Florida. Our Survey informed us of two important points:
1.) a large percentage of members are interested in learning about articles and research studies being completed in our collaborative and
2.) Members want to consult among other members for partnership in research. We are hoping the fall newsletter will provide information on both of these areas.
One section in the newsletter will be called ‘Research Roundup’ and will consist of articles about TBL written in the last 2 years by members of the TBLC community. We are asking you to send us any article(s) utilizing TBL in which you have been an author. Please send the citation (authors, year, title, journal, volume, and pages) and a one to three sentence long explanation of the project. The deadline for submission is September 18, 2015. This will be a wonderful opportunity to disseminate your article to others who are interested in learning about what you are doing with TBL, as well as publicize your findings to those are outside of your field of expertise! Please send all submissions to support@tblcadmin.org with the subject heading “Research Roundup” Additionally, if you have found a particularly good article on TBL that you are not an author of, we are planning on putting a bibliography page on our website with these articles. Please feel free to send us the citation (authors, year, title, journal, volume, and pages).
Our second section in the newsletter will be called ‘Interest in Collaboration.’ If you are interested in collaborating with others, we will need you to send us your name, email address, the topic you are interested in collaborating with others on, a draft research question if you have one (not critical), your discipline, the design (qualitative or quantitative), and who you would like to collaborate with (e.g. another discipline, someone with expertise in a specific design) and any other information you feel is pertinent.
The deadline for this will also be no later than September 18, 2015. Please send all submissions to support@tblcadmin.org with the subject heading “Interest in Collaboration” We look forward to hearing about what research our members have been involved in and identifying members who are interested in collaborating to increase the presence of TBL in the literature!
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
TBLC 2015 Regional Workshop - TBL 101 & Creating Modules
Please join us in October for TBLC Regional Workshop!
TBL 101 and Creating Modules.
Where HILTON SEATTLE AIRPORT & CONFERENCE CENTER
17620 INTERNATIONAL BLVD,
Seattle, Washington 98188-4001, USA
Session details can be found here: View Event Summary
TBL 101 and Creating Modules.
Where HILTON SEATTLE AIRPORT & CONFERENCE CENTER
17620 INTERNATIONAL BLVD,
Seattle, Washington 98188-4001, USA
Session details can be found here: View Event Summary
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
TBLC Regional Workshop Opportunities
Dear Colleagues,
There is limited space remaining for the TBL 101 and Creating an Effective TBL Module workshops, which will be offered at the 19th Annual IAMSE (International Association of Medical Science Educators) Meeting this summer on Saturday, June 13th, 2015 from 8:30 am to 3:15 pm Eastern Time. These workshops will be co-presented by Sandy Cook and Kevin Krane. These workshops can be registered for independently of the normal conference registration. For more information, please visit http://www.iamseconference.org.
In case you can’t make it, the TBLC is hosting a regional workshop on Saturday, October 10th, 2015 in Seattle at the Hilton Hotel. The workshops will be co-presented by Michele Clark and Chris Burns. Registration will be open by June 1st, 2015. More details to follow soon!
Thank you,
TBLC Admin Team
There is limited space remaining for the TBL 101 and Creating an Effective TBL Module workshops, which will be offered at the 19th Annual IAMSE (International Association of Medical Science Educators) Meeting this summer on Saturday, June 13th, 2015 from 8:30 am to 3:15 pm Eastern Time. These workshops will be co-presented by Sandy Cook and Kevin Krane. These workshops can be registered for independently of the normal conference registration. For more information, please visit http://www.iamseconference.org.
In case you can’t make it, the TBLC is hosting a regional workshop on Saturday, October 10th, 2015 in Seattle at the Hilton Hotel. The workshops will be co-presented by Michele Clark and Chris Burns. Registration will be open by June 1st, 2015. More details to follow soon!
Thank you,
TBLC Admin Team
Thursday, May 7, 2015
"Giving faculty feedback about TBL modules to ensure delivery quality"
At the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, we first introduced Team-based learning (TBL) into the preclinical curriculum in academic year 2011-2012. We started with two modules generously provided by Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. As course directors and faculty became more familiar with and willing to try TBL, the number of modules delivered markedly increased to 22 in academic year 2013-14. Some modules were homegrown, and others, adapted from existing modules. As novice practitioners of TBL, the quality of our modules was variable, so we developed a process for providing feedback to faculty about module quality.
Method: In AY2013-14, all TBL modules in the preclinical curriculum were submitted for peer review to two individuals at least three weeks prior to the scheduled TBL date. Reviewers provided narrative feedback using track changes about: quality of learning objectives, readiness assurance test (RAT) questions, and application exercises; nature of the preparatory material; and alignment of all components with one another. Reviewers had one week to complete their review, giving faculty one week to respond and make changes, so the module could be finalized for printing one week prior to the scheduled date.
Lessons learned:
When starting TBL in your program, one should have a process for providing feedback to faculty about module quality. A skilled facilitator cannot make up for a poorly constructed module. The feedback process provides a means for faculty development not only in TBL construction, but also for writing learning objectives and multiple-choice items, and constructing independent learning assignments.
It takes a team of people to complete the task of providing feedback because the workload is significant. It took us an average of 6-10 hours to complete one review, so having two individuals each reviewing 22 modules was not sustainable.
Hold faculty accountable for review submission deadlines or consider a longer time frame to review. When faculty were told to submit three weeks prior to the scheduled TBL date, they actually submitted their modules 1-2 weeks in advance, which was insufficient time for an adequate review.
Having the entire module in one document with explanatory notes is helpful for reviewers. We developed a template for faculty to fill in that includes a lesson plan, advance assignment, learning objectives, RAT, and application exercises. In addition, we provide spaces for faculty to indicate the linked learning objective(s) and explain key concepts for each RAT question and application exercise.
Future directions: We continue to modify our process for providing feedback on module quality, and are currently working with the Educational Development Committee (EDC) and other members of the TBLC to develop a rubric for assessing module quality. Another major pitfall in TBL implementation is poor facilitation. We are developing a process for providing feedback to faculty on facilitation of the session, which also involves working with the EDC and other TBLC members to develop a rubric for facilitation.
Amy Lin, MD
Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH
Janet Riddle, MD
Method: In AY2013-14, all TBL modules in the preclinical curriculum were submitted for peer review to two individuals at least three weeks prior to the scheduled TBL date. Reviewers provided narrative feedback using track changes about: quality of learning objectives, readiness assurance test (RAT) questions, and application exercises; nature of the preparatory material; and alignment of all components with one another. Reviewers had one week to complete their review, giving faculty one week to respond and make changes, so the module could be finalized for printing one week prior to the scheduled date.
Lessons learned:
When starting TBL in your program, one should have a process for providing feedback to faculty about module quality. A skilled facilitator cannot make up for a poorly constructed module. The feedback process provides a means for faculty development not only in TBL construction, but also for writing learning objectives and multiple-choice items, and constructing independent learning assignments.
It takes a team of people to complete the task of providing feedback because the workload is significant. It took us an average of 6-10 hours to complete one review, so having two individuals each reviewing 22 modules was not sustainable.
Hold faculty accountable for review submission deadlines or consider a longer time frame to review. When faculty were told to submit three weeks prior to the scheduled TBL date, they actually submitted their modules 1-2 weeks in advance, which was insufficient time for an adequate review.
Having the entire module in one document with explanatory notes is helpful for reviewers. We developed a template for faculty to fill in that includes a lesson plan, advance assignment, learning objectives, RAT, and application exercises. In addition, we provide spaces for faculty to indicate the linked learning objective(s) and explain key concepts for each RAT question and application exercise.
Future directions: We continue to modify our process for providing feedback on module quality, and are currently working with the Educational Development Committee (EDC) and other members of the TBLC to develop a rubric for assessing module quality. Another major pitfall in TBL implementation is poor facilitation. We are developing a process for providing feedback to faculty on facilitation of the session, which also involves working with the EDC and other TBLC members to develop a rubric for facilitation.
Amy Lin, MD
Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH
Janet Riddle, MD
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