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Adapting conventional delivery to cope with large cohorts: turning seminars into workshops

Teaching a hugely popular postgraduate political economy module to 50 international business students (mainly Chinese) had always gone well, based on lectures and seminars with assessment via a 3,000 word essay broadly capturing module content. But with a three times larger cohort in 2017 things went wrong. The innovation is to replace seminars with team-taught 2 hour workshops, fewer targeted readings and specific questions for groups to answer, plus a shorter more issue specific assessment. How will this go? The paper highlights problems with the traditional approach and speculates on whether the proposed changes will bring better outcomes.

Simon Sweeney
York Management School, University of York
United Kingdom

 

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