Resources for active teaching
Students learn more when they are actively involved in the learning process, yet many lectures and seminars follow the passive way of teaching. Here I post educational activities that I found useful to turn passive teaching to active teaching. All activities have been tried out in my class of reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI).
Photo:
Juan Manuel Moreno Moya
By
Peter Fedorcsak
Published June 22, 2025
Content
| Context: |
Small group teaching |
| Number of students: |
3 - 4 |
| Room arrangement: |
gynecological outpatient room |
| Duration: |
30 min game, 15 min de-brief |
| Times tested: |
> 30 |
| Student feedback: |
😊😊😊😊😊 |
| Difficulty of implementation: |
😓😓😓😓😓 |
| Set-up: |
Building escape room games for clinical teaching is challenging. See supplementary material of this paper for detailed description of a game. |
| Context: |
Seminar, workshop, team-based learning |
| Number of students: |
groups of 2-5 students, 1 - 25 simultaneous groups |
| Room arrangement: |
groups sitting around tables (not theatre seating) |
| Duration: |
30 min game, 15 min de-brief |
| Times tested: |
> 30 |
| Student feedback: |
😊😊😊😊😊 |
| Difficulty of implementation: |
😓😓😓 (if you already have the escape room) |
| Set-up: |
The full escape room described here can be downsized for simultaneous play by many groups. Props can be substituted with cheap easily multiplicable alternatives, e.g. combination safe with cardboard box and lock, ultrasound scanner with QR-code for a link to online video, etc. |
| Context: |
Workshop, group-based seminar |
| Number of students: |
groups of 3-4 students, simultaneously 3-4 groups |
| Room arrangement: |
groups sitting around tables (not theatre seating) |
| Duration: |
2 h 10 min |
| Times tested: |
> 30 |
| Student feedback: |
😊😊😊😊😊 |
| Difficulty of implementation: |
😓😓 |
| Set-up: |
Download concept book for setting up the REI-game. |
| Context: |
Workshop, group-based seminar |
| Number of students: |
groups of 2-6 students, for many simultaneous groups each with game kit |
| Room arrangement: |
groups sitting around tables (not theatre seating) |
| Duration: |
30 min |
| Times tested: |
> 30 |
| Student feedback: |
😊😊😊😊 |
| Difficulty of implementation: |
😓😓 |
| Set-up: |
Download instructions and game kit for production. |
Published June 22, 2025 2:37 PM
- Last modified June 29, 2025 8:21 AM