Description of Courses that have successfully used Team-Based Learning

Here are some descriptions of how teachers in various situations and with varying subject matter have used team-based learning effectively.

• Successful use of the Team-based Learning in "Microbial Physiology"
  • Professor McInerney has published an essay on this teaching experience in Microbiology Education, Vol. 4 (May, 2003). Click on this link and read the article in .pdf format or .doc format.
• Successful use of the Team-based Learning in "Motor Learning and Control"
• Successful use of the Team-based Learning in "Information Theory and Coding Theory"
  • Professor Weeks assigned a group project entitled "Code Design Challenge" after implementing team-based learning in his class. This assignment is referenced in the appendix of his paper. A description of the report by the student group that won the "Best Code Design" award is included here as a separate file. Click on this link to read the student paper.
• Successful use of the Team-based Learning in "Psychology of Sport"
• Successful use of the Team-based Learning in an Information Technology Java Programing Course dealing with "Applications Programing"

TELL US ABOUT YOUR TEAM-BASED LEARNING COURSES

If you have successfully used Team-Based Learning in one or more of your courses, we would like to know about it. You can use the attached Word document template to describe your course. This identifies the key topics that should be addressed. Answer the questions in detail, and return it to Dee Fink.