Dr Mike Edwards
Following the success of the Keele pioneers, I first forayed into the TBL world in the 2017-18 academic year whilst teaching in China on the NXU joint degree programme, following up the work of my colleague Daniela Plana. I found this to be an excellent way to get students to communicate with each other, particularly to express ideas and concepts in ways that were easy for them to understand – this was particularly the case for students whose first language was not English. Since that point I have successfully deployed TBL in other aspects of my teaching across organic and medicinal chemistry. I have been genuinely surprised at the breadth of ideas and concepts that can be covered successfully during TBL sessions, but also learnt many lessons about the art of designing good questions. For me the success in TBL derives from questions that promote good discussion in groups and identify common mistakes or misconceptions. The COVID era has been a challenge that most in HE would not rush to return to(!), but running online TBL sessions has proven to be one of the most effective modes of engaging students remotely.
FHEQ level 4 – Carbonyl chemistry
FHEQ level 5 – Organometallic chemistry
FHEQ level 5 – Drug targets, metabolism and PK/PD
FHEQ level 6 – Advanced organic chemistry
FHEQ level 6 – Advanced pharmacokinetics