Team-based learning (TBL) has been increasingly implemented within higher education and in business sectors as a high-quality pedagogical tool over the last decade. In general, TBL is an approach that enables educators to provide opportunities to participants to solve real-life job-related problems and collect authentic professional experiences with teamwork. In addition, TBL is supposed to assist learners in comprehending course content, foster interpersonal communication skills, and provide structured experiences so they can practice skills applicable to their future vocational and career endeavors.

However, little is known about the psychological and educational determinants of an engaging successful TBL and how these can be utilized to predict and achieve the desired outcomes of TBL. Therefore, this course will provide an evidence-based theoretical framework to understand the main determinants of an engaging and successful TBL, age appropriateness, and feasibility of different strategies.

This talk pursues the following goals:

• To explain key determinants of an engaging and successful team-based learning
• To demonstrate the impact of positive and negative team-based learning experiences
• To discuss strategies how to establish a successful and engaging team-based learning environment