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Need inspiration to design more interactive education?

Whether you teach on campus or online, TeachEUR offers a variety of activities to enhance the quality and interactivity of your education. From accessible icebreakers to practical exercises that promote active learning and collaboration among students. Get inspired, adapt these activities to your learning objectives, and add your own twist to them!

We also provide theoretical insights on various themes, supported by tips and tools to implement them immediately in practice.

We regularly add new teaching activities and would love to hear your ideas! Have you tried something new or have you applied a variation? Share it with us!

Looking for advice or do you want to brainstorm about activating education? Do you need professional support to tailor an activity to your course? Or would you like to highlight a particular theme? Contact us or send an email to cli@eur.nl.

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  • Synthesize it

    Have students learn by exchanging the subject matter.
    Three people sitting around a table passing on their sheets of paper.

  • Fishbowl

    Have an in-depth debate with a part of the group and activate the audience by asking them for analysis and reflection afterwards.
    Drawing of 3 students discussing a subject while other students observe them in the background

  • The Dilemma Game

    Considering, setting priorities and making a decision; how to navigate complex dilemma's?
    Drawing of different ways to express an opinion or value, like giving points or stars.

  • Visual space

    A friendly icebreaker to gain rapid insight into the opinions, characteristics or the mood of the group.
    Drawing of students taking literally position in a room that is divided in true and false

  • Student Generated Test Questions

    Students themselves develop test or examination questions and matching model answers.
    Drawing of a student organizing sticky notes in her head

  • Peer review

    Students give each other feedback and double their learning!
    Two people talking to each other, where one tells their suggestion to the other.

  • Quizzing

    Welcome to the lecture quiz. The quiz that enables your students to find out what they do and do not know. And you too, as quizmaster!
    Illustration of two hands holding different answers on a piece of paper, and a big question mark next to it.

  • Cases

    A reality check to bring your lecture material to life. 
    Drawing of a student explaining a dilemma to fellow students

  • Clarify your answer

    Difficult questions are answered by an increasingly larger group of students. An exercise in consensus and clarity.
    Two different speech bubbles, bubble A and B, overlapping with each other and in the overlap it says “Thus our answer is...”

  • Agree, disagree

    A traditional method adapted to an educational setting. Gauge the knowledge, characteristics or opinions of your students in an interactive way.
    Drawing of students showing their (dis)agreement to lecturer's statement

  • Gallery walk

    In this group process students walk between flip charts to read, note down their opinions, reflect and discuss. 
    Three flipboards next to each other with all different information written on it.

  • Visible knowledge

    Use this activity to get students to convert their knowledge into engaging images.
    Illustration of two people writing on a whiteboard and explaining something

New on TeachEUR: Themes

We offer a deepdive in theoretical insights on various themes in collaboration with experts, supported by tips and tools to implement these themes in educational practice.

Discover all our theme pages
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