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.
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Assignment Station
Let students rotate between different questions posted, so different groups answer the same question.
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.
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.
Demonstrations
In effective demonstrations students should be asked to predict outcomes, then experience the demonstration, and reflect by comparing the prediction and actual outcome.
Elevator Pitch
An elevator pitch is a presentation of 1 to 5 minutes. Students prepare this presentation at home and present their findings to the class or in smaller groups.
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.
Fishbowl Method
Students discuss a specific topic with a participating group within the fishbowl and an observing and reflecting group outside the fishbowl.
Mystery Quotation
After studying a topic, show them a quotation not seen before. Their task to figure out the point of view behind the quotation.
Pyramid Discussion
Organise a discussion in which students discuss their answers multiple times in a larger growing group, so they elaborate and get to a consensus on the answer over and over until it is a plenary discussion.
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.
Role Playing
Place students in the position of relevant decision makers, coach, interviewer or dialogue partner forcing them to apply the content to determine a diagnose or solve a problem.