TBLC Call for Volunteers

Build your network, your expertise, and your profile by becoming an active member of the Team-Based Learning Collaborative! Membership in the TBLC gives you access to a world-wide network of active and like-minded educators. Beyond that, joining one of the many committees helping to build TBL internationally is an excellent way to become an active, contributing member of the organization.

The TBLC Steering Committee invites you to become more involved with the Collaborative. There are several areas in which volunteer help would be welcomed and much appreciated. If you have an interest in any of the committees listed below, please let us know!

Membership Committee - The Membership Committee develops methods and programs for active membership recruitment and retention. The Committee's current focus is on writing and editing three or four newsletters each year and developing and monitoring of the new TBLC website.

Editorial Board – The Editorial Board reviews all resources, modules and other publications that are submitted to the TBLC for endorsement by the organization. The Editorial Board consists of a Chair and several committee members responsible for the process of peer reviewing/publishing TBL modules. Additional volunteers assist with peer review of newly submitted TBL modules.

Scholarship Committee – The Scholarship Committee is responsible for fostering, enhancing and encouraging the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning within the TBLC. This Committee aids members in developing individual and collaborative research endeavors to measure processes and outcomes associated with TBL, and promotes the publishing of scholarly materials related to TBL. Annual responsibilities also include peer reviewing grant proposals submitted to the TBLC for funding.

Educational Development Committee – The Educational Development Committee is responsible for obtaining, evaluating, developing, and disseminating TBL best practices and materials about TBL to be used by the membership and for recruitment. The Committee also plays a major role in organizing the TBLC's regional Fly-in workshops each fall.

Annual Program Committee – The Annual Program Committee organizes annual TBLC meetings, such as identifying the meeting theme; selecting keynote and closing session speakers; reviewing and selecting proposals for workshops, oral sessions, and posters; implementing changes suggested by TBLC members; and performing other functions as needed to ensure the success of annual meetings. This committee consists of the Chair, Past-Chair, Co-chair/Future Chair (position available), Treasurer, and representatives from the Faculty Development Committee and Scholarship Committee. Additional members of the Committee may be appointed by the Committee Chair.

Finance Committee – The Finance Committee, chaired by the Treasurer, consists of at least two additional TBLC members, and is responsible for oversight of all financial matters of the Collaborative, and for the development of the annual Collaborative financial report and respective budgets.

There are many opportunities to serve the TBLC. Doing so helps foster international-collaborative relationships among like-minded individuals, and may well enhance your professional standing and opportunities.

Please contact Danielle at danielle@tblcadmin.org if you would like to volunteer for a TBLC committee position.

New Cases in the TBLC Case Bank

The Team-Based Learning Collaborative resource bank has been updated with 9 new TBL teaching modules! When you log into the Member Only section of the TBLC website, click on the Resource Bank to view the TBL modules available and to access these new modules. Below is a listing of the newly added TBL teaching modules:

Title: Units and Measurement
Author: Lorrie Comeford

Title: Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping
Author: Judy Currey

Title: Social Cognition, Social Perception, and Social Psychology and the Law Unit
Author: Jamie S. Hughes

Title: Pathophysiology of Stroke
Author: Parto Khansari

Title: Leadership in Sport
Author: Karla Kubitz

Title: Personality in Sport and Exercise
Author: Karla Kubitz

Title: Personality Disorder
Author: Ruth Levine

Title: Large Animal Urinary Surgery
Author: Erin Malone

Title: Drug Discovery and Classification
Author: Michael H. Nelson

If you have any difficulty accessing these resources, please contact support@tblcadmin.org.

TBLC 2016 - Call for Poster and Oral Presentations

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 15th Annual Conference on Team-Based Learning, which will be held March 3-5, 2016 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with pre-meeting workshops on March 3, 2016.

You are invited to submit poster 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 started 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”.

Click here to view a sample Poster Abstract

Please visit www.TBLCAbstract.org to submit your abstract.

Please note that the first time you enter the site, you will be required to create a user profile.

Deadline for submission: November 15, 2015.

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 Albuquerque in 2016!

TBLC Workshop Abstracts Reminder

Dear Colleagues,

The deadline for workshop abstracts is drawing close. As a reminder, workshops are being accepted in three tracks - Fundamentals, Innovations & Applications, and Scholarship & Research.

Proposals are to be emailed to danielle@tblcadmin.org by September 30, 2015. 

Workshops will be accepted within one of three tracks:

• Fundamentals Track
• Innovations & Applications track
• Scholarship & Research Track

Fundamentals 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

1. Title of workshop
2. 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. 
3. 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.)
4. Specific learning objectives of the workshop (behavioral)
5. Intended audience
6. Format: the method that leaders will use during the workshop; include description of how essential elements of TBL will be incorporated.
7. Detailed schedule of workshop activities, with each segment in minutes, including breaks (assume total duration of 120 minutes).
8. Advance assignments for participants (optional)
9. Products and materials: what each participant will receive and keep
10. Assessment: provide the instrument learners will use to evaluate the workshop
11. Audio-visual requirements: provide a list. NOTE:  This will be confirmed by the Admin Planning Team as to availability.
12. Number of participants: provide the maximum number you will accept

Note: The entire proposal must less than be 2 pages (12-point Arial font, single-spaced) and in MS Word. All other document types will be returned.

Thank you,
TBLC Admin Team

TBLC Regional Workshop Reminder

Hello Colleagues,

As a reminder, TBLC will be holding a regional workshop in Seattle, Washington on October 10, 2015. The hotel block will be closed on September 18. If you plan on attending, please reserve your hotel room before this date!

This all day session will offer 2 workshops:

TBL 101

This is the single best introduction to TBL. It is conducted in a TBL format, participants must prepare ahead, take an IRAT, and engage actively with their assigned team members. The structure, process, and essential characteristics of an effective TBL module are emphasized.

Creating an Effective TBL Module

This workshop is for educators who have completed the introductory workshop on Team-Based Learning™ - TBL 101. The entire workshop is conducted in a TBL format and there is an advance assignment.

Faculty Instructors:

Michele Clark
Chris Burns

Click here for more details

Thank you,
TBLC Admin Team

TBLC Call for Research Roundup Reminder

Hello colleagues,

One section in the fall 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. This is 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!

As a reminder, the deadline for the Research Roundup is September 18, 2015. Please email your submissions to support@tblcadmin.org with the subject heading "Research Roundup".

Our second section in the newsletter will be called "Interest in Collaboration." If you are interested in collaborating with others, please 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 the Interest in Collaboration will also be September 18, 2015. If you are interested, please send all requested information to support@tblcadmin.org with the subject heading "Interest in Collaboration".

Thank you,

TBLC Admin Team

TBLC Call for Research Grant Applications

PURPOSE

The TBLC supports and encourages research and scholarship in team-based learning.  To help its members participate in opportunities that provide educational scholarship, the TBLC will provide funding to initiate new educational research or evaluation proposals in 2016-2017.  Project budgets of $2,000-$5,000 may be requested, with single institution projects to be awarded at low end, and collaborative multi-institution projects at the high end.  Two to four awards are anticipated, depending on the quantity and quality of proposed projects.  The TBLC seeks to promote collaborative projects across institutions, and seeks to stimulate the development of a community of educational scholars. Project proposals must be consistent with published criteria for educational scholarship and provide additional opportunities for others to build upon this work.

ELIGIBILITY

TBLC members from all TBLC member institutions are eligible to submit a proposal. Applicants may submit only one proposal.

TIMELINE

Application Deadline: December 1, 2015

Announcement of Awards: March 4, 2016 (at the Annual TBLC Meeting in Albuquerque, NM)

Upon completion of the project the Principal Investigator will be expected to present the project results at an annual meeting of the TBLC.  All publications, presentations and/or products resulting from this project must acknowledge the TBLC as a sponsor of the work.

BUDGET

Allowed Expenses: 

• Administrative, technical, or statistical support to carry out project 
• Research supplies & expenses (e.g., survey instruments, duplication, mailings)
• Communication between participants (e.g., web/phone conference) 
• Travel required to conduct the study

Not Allowed:

• Faculty salaries and benefits
• Travel to attend the TBLC meeting to present project results
• Indirect costs (Facilities & Administration)

QUESTIONS

All inquires and communications should be addressed to the TBLC Scholarship Committee Chair at support@tblcadmin.org.

TBL Research Grants ~ Submission Instructions

Applications must be submitted electronically as a single PDF document by 5:00 pm Eastern time on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 to support@tblcadmin.org.

Cover page must include:
a. Name of applicant(s) and affiliated TBLC school(s)
b. Project title
c. Contact information for project leader (mailing address, telephone, fax, e-mail)
d. Institutional grant/development officer to whom payment will be made (name, title, address, phone, fax and e-mail).

Proposal narrative must be typed with 12 point font, 1 inch margins, and should not exceed 5 single spaced typed pages including all text, tables, and figures.  Include the following subheadings:
a. Statement of the Problem
b. Review of Pertinent Literature
c. Methodology
d. Anticipated Outcomes (e.g., educational impact, learning outcomes)
e. Plan for Dissemination of Project Outcomes (regionally, nationally, and/or internationally). This should include a statement of your intent to present your work at the annual TBLC meeting within 2 years of the award start date.
f. Project Timeline (not to exceed 12 months).  Start date should be no later than September 1, 2016.
g. Budget, including itemized costs
h. Budget justification

Additional information (not included in the 5 page limit):
a. Biographical sketches of key personnel (required, max 2 pages each).  Please include relevant education, training & experience, skills and/or list durable educational materials/publications that demonstrate knowledge/skill relevant to the proposed study; list any other education grant support.
b. Literature Cited (required, max 1 page).
c. Optional letters of support from any key participants or institutional support personnel, stating their commitment to the project.

If the proposed research will involve human subjects, a letter of approval from the host Institutional Review Board stating that the project is approved or that approval was not necessary will be required prior to funding of an approved proposal.

PROGRESS AND FINAL REPORTS

The project director will be required to submit two progress reports.  An interim report will be due 6 months after the project start date, indicating progress to date, obstacles and solutions, preliminary results, etc.  A final report will be due within 60 days of project completion, including a final progress report of findings and dissemination activities, copies of materials developed, and final budget report.