Broad/Fundamental

Learners play a round of tug of war to better understand empathy and communication, two skills essential for healthcare professionals. Introduction: This short activity was used while teaching learners in the healthcare professionals conflict management...

This activity emphasizes to students that each question is valid and worth more discussion by incorporating each question raised during section. Goal : To address all questions that students bring up during lecture, and to encourage students to ask more...

This course uses the Harvard case method to work on student's change challenges. Goal: For students to articulate change, and apply learning concepts to their “change projects”. Background: The entire course is designed around an iterative process of...

This activity in introductory game development is intended to offer concrete initial tools for solving some of the course problems, and provide comfortably small groups in which all student voices might be shared. Activity : Game Design Activity Goal : To...

This activity teaches skills in critical assessment of the peer-reviewed published literature. It focuses on analysis of clinical trials in mental health, but the principles and methods are readily generalizable to other scientific literature. The...

Students learn about the importance of gestures in baroque opera through viewing and practicing them. Goals: to teach students that baroque opera involved body movement as well as music, and that physical motion and musical material were intimately linked...

Students learn about sustainable development and risk management through action learning – applying concepts to real world organizations and discussing ideas with peers. Goals: To help students cultivate the skills necessary to develop a risk management...

Students experience what it is like to be an expert in a field by focusing their research and writing on a single fairy tale and its adaptations throughout the course of a semester. Goals: To show students how to choose an area of expertise and join in an...

Students are actively engaged in reviewing for an exam by a PowerPoint of quiz questions that they respond to on individual dry erase board. Goals: review a broad range of course topics in an efficient manner actively engage students in the process of...

Students appreciate how different characteristics of diseases affect their transmission through playing the game Plague Inc. Goals: to teach students how disease characteristics and symptoms affect the spread of a disease through different populations to...