Stand-up tutorials: what did our students think?

The stand-up tutorials were absolutely amazing! These quite ‘revolutionary’ tutorials were much more efficient than the usual ones.

• Everyone was involved to some degree, and there was no awkward silence as […] in [other] tutorials.
• The fact that the most important part of the learning goal was already written down on the board made it easier to discuss the learning goal (whereas in the regular tutorial, the discussion gets slowed down because the scribe tries to write down every single word that is being said, and the whole discussion turns more into a dictation).
• Every tutorial was combined with presentation skills because the learning goal had to be presented to the peers.
• The pre-discussions, although often very short because of time pressure, were my favourite part of the tutorials. The dividing of the tutorial group into groups of 3-4 people made brainstorming much more effective, in my opinion, and even people who tend to be shy in big groups could actively participate. Plus, the fact that three different groups were brainstorming independently on the same topic led to different outcomes. Every group focused on different parts, which led to the same result as if you would do the same tutorial three times as one big group. This three-in-one brainstorming led to clusters and learning goals of a much higher quality than the usual tutorials.