Keynote: 12th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, 2-3 April 2019 - https://www.gla.ac.uk/ltconference

The evidence is clear that Active, Blended, Collaborative learning works! So why isn’t this the orthodoxy in higher education? A significant challenge of implementing such innovations in higher education is the ability to scale the approach to large numbers of students and prevent the erosion of pedagogical principles with time.

Team-based learning (TBL) is a highly-structured, Active, Blended and Collaborative approach to learning. In this talk I will describe our experience of rolling out TBL on a large scale and our plans for sustaining this approach at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, a joint school of Imperial College London and Nanyang technological University Singapore. The undergraduate medical program established in 2013 and developed jointly by faculty at both institutions, uses TBL as its main learning and teaching strategy, replacing all face-to-face lectures. TBL accounts for over 60% of the curriculum in the first two years, and there is continued learning through TBL during campus teaching in the remaining years.

I will focus on three critical success factors: (1) "team-centric" learning spaces, to foster active, collaborative learning; (2) an e-learning ecosystem, seamlessly integrated to support all phases of the TBL process and (3) teaching teams in which experts in the pedagogical process co-teach with experts in the subject matter.