Bite-sized EBL

(LTEA Conference: Learning for a Complex World)

Background

EBL is a major strand of the Learning & Teaching Strategy in the University of Glasgow. However, colleagues in a University Teachers' Learning Community identified potential barriers to incorporating EBL in their teaching, such as time constraints, lack of resources, rigidity of course structures, inflexible timetables, etc. This perhaps reflects an expectation that EBL should be introduced at the level of a module, or a whole course. But why not at the level of individual teaching sessions? The ideal EBL experience may be the immersive learning described at this conference by Joe Trimmer, but with some thought we should be able to implement EBL in less favourable teaching situations - even within a single seminar session or a single lecture. These would be small - bite-sized - EBL experiences, as opposed to the gargantuan feast of immersive learning.

Aim of Workshop 

The aim of the workshop was to encourage participants to consider how to incorporate EBL into their teaching, in the face of constraints imposed by time, class size, course structures, etc. 

Format

Two small group activities:

• Experience of Bite-sized EBL: Infectious Diseases
• Teaching challenges: how to incorporate EBL
   

Small Group Activity 1.doc

Small Group Activity 2.doc

Presentation  Bite-sized EBL.ppt 

Resources for Activity 1 Resources.doc

Bite-Sized EBL - post-workshop comments from Russ 

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