Best Practices for Implementing Team-Based Learning (TBL) Online
Date: 17 Sep 2022, Saturday | Time: 1520 - 1825 | Track Type: Main Conference Workshop | Format: Face-to-face | Venue: Procedural Skills Lab 2, Academia
Speaker: Prof Brian O’Dwyer
COVID resulted in an unprecedented shift to remote and online learning. While some educators and learners were able to adapt to the new normal, others were not. Fortunately, team-based learning (TBL) can make online learning effective and engaging. Education stakeholders can and should know how to do remote online learning well.
Most traditional online learning is limited to passive content transmission such as webinars rather than active learning. Can some of the active learning strategies used to transform classrooms from didactic lectures to engaging learning experiences be employed online? TBL is an active collaborative learning methodology that is becoming more common in medical education. Many institutions are starting to implement TBL in an online modality.
In 2017, the Team-Based Learning Collaborative (“TBLC”) formed an online community of practice considering the growth in the use of TBL in both synchronous and asynchronous online modalities. In 2018, the TBLC Online Community of Practice released its first whitepaper which described best practices for online TBL which was co-authored by 17 faculty members from ten institutions. The whitepaper focused on TBL in learning environments where learners and faculty were not physically co-located and connected by technology either synchronously or asynchronously.
In 2020, the facilitator started conducting online professional development workshops for hundreds of educators from over 30 countries on six continents to help educators transition to online TBL. In 2021, the facilitator again collaborated with colleagues again to develop the next generation of online TBL best practices with a special issue - Taking Small Group Learning Online: Best Practices for Team-Based Learning.
This session will describe best practices for implementing TBL online developed from these experiences.
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