TBLC Podcast

Peer Evaluations: Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Feedback

Whether we are using peer evaluations as part of Team-Based Learning or any group project, faculty cannot assume that students know how to effectively complete peer evaluations. In this episode, Tim Franz and Lauren Vicker describe the approach they developed to teach students how to give and receive feedback as a way to approach peer evaluations. Not only do they find this method helpful to understanding what is happening within the teams, but students learn a valuable skill that they may take to other classes, interviews, and future employment. Franz and Vicker also have a video that faculty can use on their own or to show students how to give and receive feedback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyWx6P8WWQ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyWx6P8WWQ]

Jonny Branney & Joe Barry: Using TBL to help patients manage chronic pain

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TBLC Annual Conference with Todd Kelson

Dr. Todd Kelson, Chair of the 2026 Annual conference provides a detailed overview of the plans for the conference, taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The conference this year will be offered in overlapping with the International Network for the Science of Team Science. A note that the conference will be later this year, taking place in early May. https://www.byui.edu/directories/todd-kelson

Tom Jansen_Episode #5_October 2025

Tom Jansen is an active member of the TBLC, Chair of the Marketing Committee, part of Membership and the Steering Committee. He is a certified Trainer Consultant and a certified professional in talent development. He had a long career using Team-Based Learning with the Boy Scouts (now Scouting America), both in the US and around the world. He also spent time in Burkina Faso with the Peace Corps and is a graduate of Virginia Tech. He's on this podcast to talk about his experiences using TBL with Scouting leaders and executives.

Tim Franz_Episode #4_September 5, 2025

Dr. Timothy Franz is a Professor of Psychology at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York. Initially a TBL skeptic, Dr. Franz described how he became interested in using Team-Based Learning in his classes, and how now he incorporates TBL in most of his graduate and undergraduate classes.