Professional Development Opportunity from VIU

Vancouver Island University Team-Based Learning Institute

Transform Your Classroom with Team-Based Learning

August 15 and 17, 2017

Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo

Deadline to Register: August 1 

The evidence is piling up in support of the Michaelsen approach to Team-Based Learning. Team-Based Learning is a teaching strategy that lays a clear path toward greater student independence and personal responsibility for learning. In any discipline and with any content. The key? A simple, coherent set of instructional protocols and practices that, when adopted carefully, ensure that all the forces of cognitive and social engagement are aligned for high-level learning and critical thinking.

The Vancouver Island University Team-Based Learning Institute will take you through the process of transforming a traditionally taught course into a Team-Based Learning course. The August 2017 Institute is for instructors who will implement the Team-Based Learning approach beginning in Fall 2017.

 A limited number of seats are available for guests (i.e., post-secondary educators not currently on the faculty or teaching staff of Vancouver Island University). Guest fees are $375 (CAD) plus GST, which cover a two-day workshop (8:30 AM – 3:30 PM) including a light breakfast, lunch, consultations with veteran TBL practitioners, and a copy of Getting Started with Team-Based Learning (Sibley and Ostafichuk).

More Infohttps://wordpress.viu.ca/ciel/2017/05/01/guestaugustteambasedlearning/

VIU Registration: https://survey.viu.ca/TBLGUEST2017.survey

Please address questions to Bill Roberson (bill.roberson@viu.ca), Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning or Liesel Knaack (liesel.knaack@viu.ca), Director Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning