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Introduction to Team Learning
Team Learning in Medical Education
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Team Learning brings together theoretically-based and empirically-grounded strategies for ensuring the effectiveness of autonomous small-groups working independently in classes with high student-faculty ratios (e.g., up to 200:1) without losing benefits of faculty-led small groups with lower ratios (e.g., 7:1).

We also view Team Learning as the codification of key instructional principles, each of which has value, even when applied outside the context of the Team Learning method in its entirety.

  Introduction to Team Learning Video
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Background Information:

  One-Page Overview with Comparison to Problem-Based Learning Last updated 6/1/03.
  Three Keys to Using Learning Groups Effectively (Essays on Teaching Excellence, 1998,9). Michaelsen suggests three fundamental principles instructors can use to motivate students in small learning groups.
  Team Learning: Putting "sTeam" into Learning Groups This essay offers a critical analysis of the benefits and challenges of three different ways of using small groups: "casual use", cooperative learning, and team learning.
  Table: Comparison Overview with Lecture, PBL, TL
  Selected Peer Reviewed Publications on TL
  Selected Books on TL

Links to internet-based resources:

  For more information about Team Learning, please visit
Dr. Larry K. Michaelsen's Website.

  "Active Learning in Lectures: Alternatives for Making Teaching in Large Classes Interactive"
This 60-minute streaming video file contains a talk Dr. Michaelsen gave to Baylor faculty as part of its ongoing "Medical Education Seminar Series". In the presentation Dr. Michaelsen discusses Team Learning while he illustrates how the intra- and inter-group process works in a lecture setting.



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