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TBLC Annual Meeting 2023
Some notes on the Team Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) Annual Meeting 2023 – mostly of interest to the TBL community.
Hyflex and Team Based Learning – in practice
Back in August, I blogged about my plans to combine Hyflex with Team Based Learning. Well, I’v now done this for a semester and here I report on my experiences – the good, the bad and the ugly! If you … Continue reading
Concerned about TBL…
On 5 December, I hosted a Team Based Learning (TBL) ‘masterclass’ @UniOfBath. We had a useful discussion of concerns about TBL and how to address them. If you are potentially interested in applying TBL or other active learning approach, you … Continue reading
Team Based Learning #1: Motivation
This semester, I have been experimenting with Team Based Learning; I am really happy with the outcome so have decided to write a series of blog posts about it. Continue reading
Reflections on the #ucustrike
We are now at the end of (the first) 4 weeks of an industrial dispute between the Universities UK (UUK) and the University and College Union (UCU). I thought it useful to reflect on the dispute for the benefit of … Continue reading
Dr Fox and effective feedback
Today’s Conversation with Cake involved a look at a recent paper reappraising the Dr Fox phenomenon. This led onto a discussion of meaningful student feedback – that is, feedback that informs and improves our teaching
Sustainable Innovation
On Monday 7 November, I went to the Sustainable Innovation conference at the Centre for Sustainable Design in Epsom. The theme of the conference was “Circular Economy” which ties in very nicely with my teaching and research on #itmbath.
Disappearing WiFi
Does the wifi disappear on your laptop? It might be just me, but I’ve had this recurring, intermittent and extremely annoying problem for a while. By wifi disappearing I don’t mean the wifi network, I mean the wifi adaptor itself. … Continue reading
Christensen #3 – Building a Theory
In perhaps the most interesting (and certainly the most novel) lecture, Clay gave a meta-explanation of the Innovator’s Dilemma, using it to illustrate the process of building a theory.
Christensen #2 – Disruptive Innovation and the Panda’s Thumb
Much of this lecture came from ‘The Innovator’s Solution‘ – a well judged (and marketed) follow up to Christensen’s seminal ‘Innovator’s Dilemma‘ book. The phrase Panda’s Thumb, btw, comes from Stephen Jay Gould, a brilliant evolutionary biologist who used the … Continue reading
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