Project Description
Team-Based Learning (TBL) flips the classroom, assigns students into teams for small-group learning, and engages student teams to work together to solve problems—thus facilitating problem-based learning pedagogical strategies. TBL can be very effective in improving student outcomes, indirectly teaching important teamwork and collaboration skills, and making class periods more enjoyable for both students and professors. One drawback for faculty to implement TBL in the classroom is that some of the recommended practices are time and labor intensive for the instructors. We have developed several computational tools using the R programming language and Shiny apps to streamline the implementation of TBL. We propose to develop more tools and functions to help make implementing TBL less time and labor intensive, to document the use of these tools, and to combine them into an official R package hosted by CRAN. Such a free and open-source R package will facilitate faculty members around the world to implement TBL and lead to a greater adoption of these pedagogical practices in academia, thus providing an education benefit to a greater number of students.
Contacts
- Eric Vance (facutly)
- Ilana Trumble (graduate student)