Welcome to the KI TBL Club web Module!

Stained rat brain cells showing the complex, interconnected structure of the brain. Aim for this web Module

This short web Module (estimated 1-2 hours) gives a first introduction to teaching and learning using Team Based Learning (TBL), applying evidence-based pedagogic principles and insights from cognitive neuroscience. Basing our pedagogy on understanding how the brain works in the complex tasks of learning, we can improve the design of our learning and teaching activities. TBL will be used in much of the six year Curriculum in Medicine, but not for everything. This Module is tweaked towards the Medicine programme, but works fine for learning about TBL for other types of higher education programmes and courses.

This Module is structured as a short Team Based Learning Module where you learn the basics of TBL, using the standard TBL Module structure in the Medicine programme, consisting of four Phases with designed learning and teaching activities.

You can go through the web Module on your own pace, all by yourself. You can complete it during a single day but better if you do it over 2-3 days, to increase learning. As it is designed, it can be beneficial if you can team up with someone to discuss questions in a small part of the Module to get a small "Team element" in to the process. However, you can do it all on your own as well.

Outcomes of this web module

After the completed Module

you can describe some of the basic pedagogic principles and concepts that we employ in Team Based Learning (TBL)
you can describe schematically the overall structure of the TBL Module with its four Phases, and identify some learning and teaching activities that can be included for each Phase
you have basic knowledge of TBL which you can start applying in designing Team Based Learning modules for your own learning and teaching activities

We strongly encourage you to participate in further training such as workshops on Team Based Learning to build on this very first basic module on TBL. Note also that this web module does not have an examination, it is not a formal KI teaching and learning course, and completion of the course does not entitle you to course hours, days or credits.

Start learning about the basics of Team Based Learning.

Contact and any comments to Duarte.Ferreira@ki.se or matti.nikkola@ki.se

This web module was first initiated and created for local training purposes (collegial learning) at CMB/KI by Matti Nikkola together with the two TBL pioneers at CMB, Enikö Lazar and Ionut Dumitru, with support and comments from many individuals (for more names, see Acknowledgements). Anyone interested in taking this web module at KI can do it.

The image shows stained rat brain cells, showing the complex interconnectedness of the brain. Source Wikimedia Commons, downloaded 2021-01-26