Short and Small Strategies
Here are a number of ideas that could be used as a quick intro to a topic to get students thinking, as a way to break up a lecture...
Experiential or Activity Based Learning
Broadly speaking, experiential learning is learning through doing – the learner is an active participant in the educational process, not a passive witness to it. The content, idea or...
Field Trip
Time requirements: At least 50 minutes; preferably a couple of hours Special features: A field trip can be especially interesting for students and instructors, and it facilitates some types...
Add to Existing Task
Many existing assessments have aspects of the GLO’s already built into them. With small tweaks to marking criteria current assessment task can be adjusted to explicitly assess GLO’s. View...
Group Assignments
What are Group Assessments? Group work involves students working collaboratively on set tasks, in or out of the classroom. Group sizes can vary from pairs to large groups of...
Essay
What is an Essay? An essay is an extended piece of writing that presents and supports a thesis or proposition. The word ‘essay’ derives from the Latin word ‘exagium’,...
Report
What is a Report? A report is a specific form of writing that is organised around concisely identifying and examining issues, events, or findings that have happened in a...
Journal
What is a Journal A journal is a record that can be used to detail everything from your feelings about a particular situation in your social life to your...