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Students deliver content on a topic of choice, on any format they choose.

  • Group Size More than 100 students
  • Time Frame Duration distributed along the semester
  • Facilitation Level Intermediate
  • Contributes to Create & Evaluate & Analyze & Apply & Understand & Remember & Activate

  • Resources

  • Individual Work

    Yes

  • Team Work

    Yes

  • Mode

    Online

Students deliver content on a topic of choice, on any format they choose.

Implementation

The implementation of the activity is detailed in the CISPEE 2021 paper, “Profiling ECE Students Through Horizontal Skills”.

(i) Students deliver some content on a topic of choice. This activity is an evaluation space where students can present to their classmates anything they wish (within legal boundaries). Examples of activities include theatrical performances, production and presentation of media contents, oral and written presentations, demonstrations of small size models, functionalities, etc. The topics range from societal to scientific.
(ii) The structure of this content must be clear. The students are briefed about the need to present their work showing that they were able to develop an articulated idea/concept of their choice and communicate it to an audience.

Monitoring

Includes:
(i) enforcing the deadline for the students to submit their contributions
(ii) ensuring that students understand the rules and clarify doubts about permitted content

Aim

The aim of the activity is to stimulate out-of-the-box thinking in the context of academic work. This activity can be combined with other standard academic practices such as student evaluation.

Note

A significant percentage of students tend to be suspicious about what is to be gained with this kind of activity. This often leads students to present works aiming at causing discomfort to teachers. Once duly assessed and graded, such works tend to be very effective in demonstrating the objectives of the activity. Often students want a detailed report on their grades. This must be provided with as much detail as possible. In addition, illustrating how the strong and weak points of the work can affect the academic performance is appreciated by the students.

Credit

João Silva Sequeira, University of Lisbon
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