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August 2016
Dr. Raymond Frost, professor of management information systems at OHIO, has reinvented his classroom. By utilizing a teaching methodology called Team-Based Learning (TBL) that delivers highly interactive small-group learning, Frost has significantly improved student engagement and learning in his classes.
As many teachers can attest to, student engagement and student learning are two of the most substantial challenges in the classroom. Frost would agree; he has been teaching for a total of 24 years, and until he implemented TBL into his courses at Ohio University, he faced these same challenges.
In 2011, Frost was asked to pursue faculty development that would guarantee classroom critical thinking on the part of the students. This was when he first started learning about TBL. For years I d tried what I would call my bag of tricks in teaching, Frost said, but it wasn t really a recipe in the sense that all of the parts didn’t tie together in the way TBL ties them t