Congratulations to Dave Dove for his part in the Queen’s News Centre’s investigation into innovative teaching techniques used on Campus.
Professor Dove’s multi-year move to team-based learning was one of the focuses of the article, in which he acknowledges that the innovative approach often takes students out of their comfort zone of a more traditional approach of lectures and exams. From the article:
“Team-based learning is part of the Academic Plan and it’s what students need. For years I observed students struggling to apply what they had memorized,” he says. “Team-based learning also helps students develop communication and teamwork skills they will need to survive in the working world.
“I make the whole group accountable to everybody. As a student, you are responsible for learning the material but also helping the rest of your team learn the material. That improves their articulation skills and their ability to argue for a point. Those are useful skills in whatever you do.”