Enhancing Student Engagement through Team-Based Learning in Blended Environments

1. Teams & Blended LearningInteraction & Peer Engagement Alisa Cooper, EdD dr.coop@gmail.com Faculty, Assistant Chair/eCoursesCoordinator English Department Glendale Community College

2. Teams and Blended Learning

3. Which best describes your experience with student teams or team based learning? Discussion

4. Using Teams • Based on the work of Larry Michaelsen (University of Central Missouri) • http://www.teambasedlearning.org • 3 Keys • Promoting ongoing accountability • Using linked and mutually reinforcing assignments • Adopting practices that stimulate idea exchange

5. Promoting Ongoing Accountability • Require pre-group work • Require group members to express individual opinions and monitor via another member • Include peer evaluation in grading • Readiness Assurance Process

6. Adopting Practices that Stimulate Idea Exchange Use of assignments that create conditions that foster give-and-take interaction Diversity of opinion, ideas, and perspectives Not too easy Not too much writing Employ, select, apply concepts from the course • Assign roles • Use permanent groups • Allow some in-class group work • Size: 4-7

9. Team Teaching Tips • Outline learning goals • Teach team skills • Clear and detailed instructions • Rubric • Stages of team development • Forming - polite but untrusting • Storming - testing others • Norming - valuing other types • Performing - flexibility from trust

10. Team Contracts • Purpose, goals, and missions • Expectations • Roles • Conflict resolution strategies • Meetings • Communication • Decision-making policy • Agendas • Record-keeping

11. Other TBL Resources • Getting Started with TBL • http://www.teambasedlearning.org/starting • TBL Videos • http://www.teambasedlearning.org/clip11

12. Discussion • How might the team based learning approach or parts of TBL fit into blended learning?

13. Interaction And Peer Engagement In The Blended Course

14. Facilitating and Assessing • Instructors should not participate or only participate in supportive role if interaction and critical thinking is to be facilitated • Meaningful discussions/Make them count

15. 18 Tips for Successful Peer Collaboration/Engagement

16. 18 Tips for Successful Peer Collaboration/Engagement

17. 18 Tips for Successful Peer Collaboration/Engagement

18. 18 Tips for Successful Peer Collaboration/Engagement Ledman R. & Roby T. “Introducing online components to a class: How to increase the likelihood of success.” Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning, Volume 31, 2004. http://sbaweb.wayne.edu/~absel/bkl/.%5Cvol31%5C31aj.pdf

19. Discussion Groups

20. Student Facilitators • Assigned weeks • Provide resources • Assessment items • Worksheet or quiz questions • Summarize salient points

21. Fishbowl Technique • One group = fish • Online discussion visible to all • Read the posts • Communicate privately • Student on outside may provide: • Suggestions • Raise questions • Report correspondence

22. Student Generated Questions • Teams • Write questions • Exchange • Answer questions • One team chosen each week • Answer questions

23. Reading Discussions

24. Reciprocal Teaching

25. Research Current/Events • Connecting course content to published research or current events • Vote on best post

26. Evaluate student performance • Evaluate student performance • meaningful feedback • prompt

27. Take-Aways • How will you ensure that students come prepared to class? Or that you know they’re not ready before class? • How will they know they’re not prepared and what can be done to preserve the quality of in class time? • How can the blended delivery mode help you in supporting particular areas of difficulty in your course?

28. Questions