What is Team-based Learning (TBL)?
Team-based learning (TBL) spaces at Michigan are classrooms with unique features, including moveable furniture, writing surfaces, and student technology. These spaces support a variety of active instructional strategies that require higher order thinking skills, such as problem solving, analysis, and construction of knowledge.
To learn more about teaching in a team-based learning space, contact the Academic Technology Services Learning Technologies and Consulting (LTC) office to make an appointment, either by phone at 734.615.0099 or email [email protected].
How does Academic Technology Services support Team-based Learning?
Team-based learning is an instructional strategy in which students participate in highly structured teams and follow a series of activities, from reviewing the content before class, to demonstrating knowledge of that content both individually and as a team, followed by related application and assessment activities (Michaelsen, Knight, and Fink, 2004). Other related pedagogical approaches include active learning, “flipped classrooms,” and problem-based learning.
Team-based Learning Resources
Planning Guide
Room Features (MClassrooms Database)
Instructor Snapshots
- Professor David Lipps School of Kinesiology, MOVESCI 330: Biomechanics of Human Movement
TBL Activity Screencasts
- Interactive Lecture (2:30 min.)
- Collaborative Assignment and Gallery Walk (4 min., includes video clips of an instructor who previously taught in a TBL room)
Course Design Resources
- Academic Technology Services Active Learning Framework
A chart that provides descriptions of common learning activities - Student Teams in the Engineering Classroom and Beyond: Setting up Students for Success: Occasional Paper 29, U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
- Learning Activities for TBL Spaces
Descriptions for setting up and managing common learning activities in a TBL space
Group Management Resources
- Sample Group Project Tools
Eberly Center, Carnegie Mellon University - 10 Recommendations for Improving Group Work Faculty Focus
- Arranging Groups for Group Projects
Inside Higher Ed - Strategies for Using Groups Effectively
U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching - Surviving Group Projects
University of Minnesota - Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME)
- U-M CATME Licensing Information
- Video Tutorial: Team Maker Surveys
- Video Tutorial: Peer Evaluation Surveys
- Introduction to CATME, Academic Technology Services Newsletter Article
- Group Management Tools: Comparing CATME with Canvas Groups
