Designing Your Course for Active Team-Based Learning

Last updated December 10, 2014

Course Length

1h 32m

Last Updated

December 10, 2014

Designing Your Course for Active Team-Based Learning

Last updated December 10, 2014

Overview

Implementing collaborative and team-based learning in large, diverse classes has proven to be an effective tool for improved student engagement and learning. The challenge is designing and facilitating your course to effectively identify students’ current knowledge and craft activities that promote a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

Join us online to learn how to design your courses to incorporate team-based learning. Our expert instructor will cover how to:

  • Build diverse student teams
  • Assess teams’ current knowledge
  • Create problem-based activities to promote critical thinking
  • Evaluate the team-based experience
  • Instructional designers, faculty developers and current faculty will leave this training with a proven and researched model for designing and facilitating team-based learning courses.

During the webcast, we will demonstrate different team-based learning strategies through active attendee participation, allowing you to experience guided team interaction and dynamics.

Agenda

  • Examining a comprehensive team-based learning structure
  • Preparing students for deeper learning
    • Designing diverse student teams
      • Identifying characteristics essential to the course
      • Strategies for small and large courses
      • Tools to ensure multiple levels of diversity
    • Building activities that assess student knowledge
      • Purpose and execution
      • Designing for effective team discussion
      • Common challenges
      • Examples for different disciplines
    • In class application activities
      • Designing with the 4 Ss
      • Examples from different disciplines
      • Common challenges
    • Incorporating student evaluation
      • Formats for assessment
      • Reporting to peers