using blackboard to support team-based learning: delivery and rollout

Using Blackboard to support team-based learning: delivery and rollout Moira Sarsfield, Imperial College London

• What is TBL?

• How can technology help to deliver TBL?

• What technology is suitable for you & your students?

• How can a TBL package be built and redeployed in Blackboard?

Using Blackboard to support team-based learning (TBL): delivery and rollout

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• A structured teaching strategy, involving pre-study by students, quizzing to assess understanding, and peer-to-peer learning via team and class discussion

• Larry Michaelsen - University of Oklahoma Business School

• Dean Parmelee - promoted use in Medical Schools

Team-based Learning (TBL)

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Elements of TBL

• Reading a paper, watching a video or a lecture

• Individual MCQs on pre-study material• Marks count for grade• No feedback, no mark until later

• Team answers same MCQs as iRAT – one entry per team• Immediate feedback on answer• Ability to answer again if incorrect• Marks count for grade

• Lecturer reviews questions which caused problems for teams

Pre-study

iRAT tRAT RAT review tAPP APP

debate Appeals Peer review

Pre-study

iRAT

tRAT

RAT review

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• Team work together to answers questions, apply knowledge from RATs• One entry per team; marks count for grade• All members of team must be ready to justify the team answer

• Teams giving different answers called upon to justify their selection• Debate between teams on which answer is correct• Correct answer provided after debate

• Teams can appeal, e.g. if they disagree with the correct answer• If successful the score for that team is adjusted

• Team members assess the contribution of peers, giving a mark and comments; marks count for grade

tAPP

APP debate

Appeals

Peer review

Elements of TBLPre-

studyiRAT tRAT RAT

review tAPP APP debate Appeals Peer

review

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Mr Studious

But Shy Little Miss

Team Player Mr Lazy Learner

Pre-study

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Working with the team

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Student iRAT tRAT tAPPPeer

ReviewTotal

Studious But Shy 27 22.5 20 3 72.5

Team Player 18 22.5 20 10 70.5

Lazy Learner 12 22.5 20 8 62.5

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Teaching focus• Large class data management – recording student responses• Quick turnaround of results to feed into whole class discussion

Learning technology focus• Using tools that students are familiar with• Making the session “reusable”

Technology and TBL

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• Blackboard Items in a Content Folder• Deliver pre-study materials to students in a structured way

Pre-study

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Pre-study

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• Blackboard Test – Adaptive Release by date/time, time limit, auto-submission, password, added time for students eligible for extra time in exams

• Hard copy of questions to record answers

• Deliver MCQs • Apply a time limit• Easy marking• Reporting of results for

each student

iRAT

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Technology and TBL• Blackboard Test – Adaptive Release by

date/time, time limit, auto-submission, password, added time for students eligible for extra time in exams


• Deliver MCQs • Apply a time limit• Easy marking• Reporting of results for

each student

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tRAT • Deliver same (iRAT) MCQs • Allow one entry per

team• Instant feedback• Retry for reduced mark• Correct answer revealed• Easy marking• Reporting of results for

each team

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• Groups preloaded into Bb course and into Grade Centre • Group Set Sign-up Sheet for scribes• Smart View of Grade Centre shows

scribes and tRAT scores only



each team

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• Adaptive Release of tRAT quizzes to scribes only with password• No time limit to allow discussion• One quiz for each attempt of each

question – two attempts allowed



each team

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• Calculated column in Grade Centre shows sum of all tRAT scores (scribes)• Hard copy of questions to record team

answers• Correct answer document manually

released



each team

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• Deliver MCQs • Instant feedback• Retry for reduced mark• Correct answer revealed• Easy marking• Reporting of results for

each team

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• Download Grades (current view) and paste into pre-prepared Excel spreadsheet, which highlights poorly answered questions

• Copy Attempt Statistics for difficult questions into spreadsheet to show which answers were chosen

• Calculate average and range of iRAT and tRAT test scores

• Rapid reporting of questions which caused problems

RAT review

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RAT review

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• Blackboard Test – Adaptive Release to scribes only, by date/time, time limit, auto-submission, password


• Deliver questions • Gather answers

simultaneously• Apply a time limit

tAPP

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• Download Results of tAPP quiz and paste into pre-prepared Excel spreadsheet, to show which team gave which answer

• Select teams to speak on each answer

• Rapid reporting of answers given by each team

APP debate

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APP debate

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• Excel spreadsheet to be downloaded and completed by scribe (up to 3 appeals, each <500 words)

• Adaptive Release to scribes only, with date/time restriction

• Submit to Turnitin Assignment Dropbox in Blackboard with timed deadline

• Gather appeals – one form per team – by a set deadline• Optionally restrict

number/length of appeals

Appeals

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• Excel spreadsheet to be downloaded and completed by each student

• Adaptive Release – date/time

• Submit to Turnitin Assignment Dropbox in Blackboard with timed deadline

• Data processed and individual emails sent to students including marks and peer review comments

• Gather marks and comments from each student on their team members by a set deadline• Optionally restrict how

marks can be awarded• Process for anonymous

reporting of marks and comments to peers

Peer review

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Peer review

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Elements of TBL with Technology

tAPPAPP

debate

Peer review

Appeals

Pre-study

iRAT

tRATRAT

review

• Blackboard

• Blackboard test

• Multiple Bb tests

• Bb and Excel

• Blackboard test(s)

• Bb and Excel

• Bb/TII and Excel

• Bb/TII, Excel, Perl, Outlook

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tAPPAPP

debate

Peer review

Appeals

Pre-study

iRAT

tRATRAT

review

Elements of TBL with Technology

• Blackboard

• Blackboard test

• Multiple Bb tests

• Bb and Excel

• Blackboard test(s)

• Bb and Excel

• Bb/TII and Excel

• Bb/TII, Excel, Perl, Outlook

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Redeploying TBL in Blackboard

• Make a template course including generic versions of all elements of the TBL session

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In template course, roll-over dates and times • Course Tools > Date Management


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Export from template course:• Packages and Utilities >

Export/Archive Course

Import into new course:• Packages and Utilities >

Import Package/View Logs


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New course contains the complete structure of the TBL session:• RAT/APP quizzes, with generic questions ready to revise• Adaptive release on all elements, including logic, dates/times, etc• Dropboxes with correct dates• All columns and smart views in the Grade Centre • Documentation for staff to reuse


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• What is TBL?

• How can technology help to deliver TBL?

• What technology is suitable for you & your students?

• How can a TBL package be built and redeployed in Blackboard?

Any Questions?

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