Jim Sibley

Jim Sibley is director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. As a faculty developer, he has led a 14-year implementation of team-based learning in engineering and nursing at UBC, with a focus on large-classroom facilitation. Sibley has 35 years experience in faculty development, support, and training at UBC. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (term 2014-2017) and as an invited reviewer for the Teaching and Learning Inquiry journal. Sibley has written the book Getting Started with Team-Based Learning published by Stylus. Sibley has also authored and facilitates a successful online TBL course that helps faculty build their first TBL module in just 2 weeks! He is an international TBL consultant. Sibley is also a board member of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival that brings 700 theater shows to Vancouver during a ten day festival every September.

Updated 01-11-2017