Hybrid TBL Team Setup

Hi everyone,

For those running Team-Based Learning in hybrid classrooms, we’re curious how you handle team composition.

Do you typically create teams so that they are:

  • Mixed-mode teams (each team includes both in-person and remote learners), or
  • Mode-based teams (teams are either all in-person or all online)?
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If you’ve tried both, what helped you decide and what did you notice in terms of engagement, equity, and team dynamics?

Excited to hear how different TBLers approach this!

I have tried hybrid teams. It doesn’t work well and I wouldn’t recommend it. Sometimes you need to due to eg illness etc - and better to have a hybrid team than to reconfigure the teams (which is even worse). Having a pure online team does work well, though you do have to figure out how to include them properly in the debrief

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Thanks for sharing this, Steve. Appreciate your perspective as always.

Great point about hybrid teams being a short-term workaround when needed. If you have any other insights from your hybrid TBL experience, feel free to share in this thread!