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Team-based learning
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<p>Team-based learning (TBL) is a <a href="/facts/Collaborative_learning/wmmBRzaS">collaborative learning</a> and teaching strategy that enables people to follow a structured process to enhance student engagement and the quality of student or trainee learning. The term and concept was first popularized by <a href="/facts/Larry_Michaelsen/PdIWVSR8">Larry Michaelsen</a>, the central figure in the development of the TBL method while at <a href="/facts/University_of_Oklahoma/clDb6JUu">University of Oklahoma</a> in the 1970s, as an educational strategy that he developed for use in academic settings, as in <a href="/facts/Medical_education/yzs4WxGr">medical education</a>. Team-based learning methodology can be used in any classroom or training sessions at school or in the workplace. </p>