Each team has a captain who rotates each week. The captain decides the strategy, assigns the team tasks and is responsible for the final answer printout. Correct answers gain points and winning teams get higher marks. Next week, each student took a 15-minute test on the assigned material. I briefly covered the material and fielded questions.
Teams work competitively, on a series of different questions menued by the computers.
Obviously, this technique is not for the single lecture or for large classes unless they are sectioned. However, I am convinced that any body of material can, with a little imagination, be formatted for computer Module Team-Teaching and be better assimilated thereby. The tips were written by instructors at McMaster in response to some of the more common and difficult problems reported in a recent survey of instructors. We'll try to include it in a later issue.