One of the biggest ways to engage hybrid classrooms is through team-based learning.
But - what is team-based learning?
Team-based learning (TBL) is a learning strategy where peer interaction is at the core of an academic lesson, and students engage with each other through individual testing and group collaboration.
With TBL, students are motivated by being accountable to both themselves and to their peers - while the instructor can give feedback and check-in on student groups in real-time.
This setting is thought to reflect a ‘real-life’ collaboration model and introduces students to a variety of thought processes and analysis that can be used to solve a single problem.
As instructors and managers of education technology search for the best technology to support team-based learning, it is important to lean into solutions that are software centric for a few different reasons, like:
- Future-proofing: less hardware means less updates needed for the future, except for easy and continuous software updates
- Fewer points of failure
- Distance teaching and learning friendly - with software-based tech for team-based learning, remote students and instructors can join a class, even if they’re not on campus
ThinkHub Education is a software solution for team-based learning that utilizes an Interactive Canvas where students can connect and share web-browsers, images, videos, PDFs, live documents like O365, Google Workspace, and more. They can also annotate on the Canvas in real-time as a team. Students can connect whether they are in the room or signing into class remotely.
Instructors can view and monitor team-based learning work with ThinkHub’s large Canvas, instead of having groups simply share an answer at the end of the class.
The engagement of students increases with collaboration technology, therefore taking student retention to a whole new level.
Watch the ThinkHub Education video now to see team-based learning with T1V in action.