By: Daniel Reid
Shawn Graham isn’t your ordinary history professor. Not by a long shot.
Essays? He hates them. Video games? Part of his curriculum.
“I often joke with my students that I don’t want to read any more essays,” says Graham, who specializes in game-based learning approaches. “I want them making different things.”
This unique teaching approach is part of the reason why Graham just won the Desire2Learn Innovation Award for Teaching and Learning on April 23. The award, sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Desire2Learn, recognizes innovative teaching and learning approaches in post-secondary education.
Read more in the May issue of Carleton Now.