Break-out groups – Active Learning at King's

Image generated by CoPilot from the prompt: draw me a visual metaphor for a one-sample t-test. Depicts a spotlight on a single figure surrounded by many others, with an adjacent ruler

Beyond step-through instructions: interactive scenarios to prompt deeper engagement with statistics

December 6, 2024 Mira Vogel 0

This case study is from Dr Chiamaka Nwosu, Lecturer in Policy Evaluation at King’s College London. Chiamaka teaches a core module on Research Methods to 40+ students enrolled in the MSc in Management and Technological Change […]

An employability card game where students decide the rules

November 17, 2023 0

This case study is from Dr Yijing Li, Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Urban Science and Progress (London), CUSP London, Department of Informatics, NMES Faculty, King’s College London. She was awarded Faculty Teaching Innovation […]

The Perusall annotation interface. Text in the left pane with comments displaying as highlights. Comments expanded in the right pane.

Collaborative reading before a flipped class

May 26, 2023 0

This case study is from Francisco (Paco) Rodríguez-Fortuño, Reader in Physics at King’s College London. Paco teaches a core module on Electromagnetism to around 160 second year undergraduate Physics students. The format is flipped, which […]

Students studying and socialising in a room

Group synthesis task in a workshop on academic writing

January 16, 2023 Ayesha Ahmed 0

This case study is from Mariam Ghorbannejad, Learning Developer based at King’s Academy. She worked alongside Doctor Laura Gibson, Lecturer in Digital Content Management Education, who runs the Introduction to Digital Asset and Media Management […]

Visual organisers (also called ‘graphic’ or ‘advance’ organisers)

October 7, 2021 Mary Seabrook 0

What is it? Visual organisers are ways in which material (concepts, facts, ideas) can be represented in a visual format. They have roots in Ausubel’s cognitive learning theory (Ausubel, 1960) and were originally known as […]

Person throws up their hands and turns away, by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

The LARA method for tense talks

November 3, 2020 Mira Vogel 0

What is it? As outlined in ‘Creating safe spaces and brave spaces‘, university learning often involves encounters between students with different social viewpoints. If these discussions are overwhelmed with emotion, students will find it hard […]

People meeting in a room, looking serious

Creating safe spaces and brave spaces

October 28, 2020 Mira Vogel 0

What are they? Safe spaces came into existence to give people from a marginalised or persecuted group a way to meet, sometimes with political purposes, without having to defend themselves against prejudice or abuse. The […]

Discussion forums

April 2, 2020 0

What is it? Forums allow students and staff to have a group conversation, with each participant posting their contributions at times convenient for them. Most posts are text-based, but often support images, links and even […]

"The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C." at Queens College, CUNY in Fall 2012

Role-play

August 20, 2019 0

What is it? Role-play is experiential learning based on perspective-taking within a scenario. Participants inform themselves about the viewpoint of an interest group or character and then perform that role according to a set of […]

Brainstorming

August 5, 2019 Mary Seabrook 0

What is it? Brainstorming is a method used to generate multiple answers or ideas. It encourages creativity and divergent thinking which can be used to solve problems or answer questions. It was popularised by Alex […]