Preparation >30 min – 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 […]

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 […]

"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 […]

Students sit round a table in a small room concentrating on a problem.

Problem-based learning

August 9, 2019 0

What is it? Tutorial groups of eight to twelve students address realistic, ill-structured scenarios in complex, interdisciplinary domains, through a defined sequence of steps facilitated by a tutor. PBL is a curriculum approach – a […]

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Tests and polls

May 6, 2019 Mira Vogel 0

What is it? Tests, sometimes known as Quizzes, are usually no-stakes or low stakes opportunities for learning (i.e. students work with knowledge as well as recalling what they already know) which can take place within […]

Jigsaw activity

May 5, 2019 Mira Vogel 0

What is it? Each student within a ‘home group’ focuses on a separate segment of a given concept or unit of learning. They convene into temporary ‘expert groups’ to develop their ideas before returning to […]

Peer Instruction – Eric Mazur’s approach

May 2, 2019 Mira Vogel 1

What is it? Peer Instruction is an approach to teaching difficult concepts which students often misunderstand – bottlenecks in learning which students must pass through if they are to progress further. Students are assigned preparatory […]