Team Based Learning: Learning Strategy in Nursing Education toward the Development of the Twenty-First Century Learning Skill

Abstract

Many teaching and learning methods in nursing education focus on improving the 21st century life skills of learners. The team-based learning method is one of cooperative learning methods that encourages learners to be responsible and develop their abilities to solve problems and make decisions. It consists of 3 main steps: 1) preparing before class; 2) preparation test before class, which is divided into 3 sub-steps: individual testing, group testing, and providing clarification by teachers; and 3) applying knowledge. This article presents the team-based learning process, based on learners’ roles and instructor’ roles, benefits of team-based learning method on developing the 21st century life skills of the learners, application of the team-based learning in the “Adult Nursing 1” course, factors and conditions of team-based learning method.