Featured learning activities
Video Essay
Students use their creative and visualization skills by presenting their research in the form of a video essay.
The Wrong Example
Sometimes students don't understand what is good about a 'good' example, therefore showing your students en letting them identify what is wrong helps them better.
Lightning Talk
Lightning talks, or for some know as ‘Pecha Kucha’, are designed to be short presentations between five to ten minutes long with minimalistic presentations. This presentationstyle forces students to deliver effective speech and only provide core information.
All learning activities
Brainwriting
Let students brainstorm individually for a given time before answering a open question.
Buzzgroups
The instructor introduces a question or assignment, which the students will answer or solve in groups of two or three in a short amount of time.
Concept Map
Let students make a concept map to use as a graphic organizer about a certain topic.
Concrete Images
All students bring individually a concrete image to class. Let them discuss common themes, patterns and missing information regarding a specific topic or phenomenom.
Create Infographic
Let students collaborate to create an infographic or PowerPoint about a piece of literature, a case study or a project they did. By creating a visual of a large amount of text, students are forced to only present the most important aspects.
Demonstrations
In effective demonstrations students should be asked to predict outcomes, then experience the demonstration, and reflect by comparing the prediction and actual outcome.
Entry & Exit tickets
Entry & Exit tickets are short prompts that provide instructors with a quick student diagnostic.
Exam Questions
Let students come up with their own exam questions and answers about a specific topic. These questions will be shared with other students for them to practise too.
Multiple choice
Students answer multiple choice questions during a quiz.
Peer Review
Peer review provides students with additional feedback from peers. This evaluation process teaches the student and the peer to look at their work critically.
Press conference
A press conference is held. This could be done at the end of group project as a presentation of their findings. (Groups of) students present their paper, findings or opinion on a given subject.
Question of the day
Students come up with a ‘question of the day’ about a certain topic. Different students present a question at the start of the tutorial session.