Innovative Teaching Techniques

Using Scenarios to get students problem solving

Each year, 140 to 160 students, working in groups of six or seven, take on an “open-ended, complex and ill-defined” real-world problem, based on the topics they are covering during that term. The students are tasked with the scenario problem on a Monday and then given a full week to come up with a solution, attending formal ‘client meetings’ and facilitation drop-in sessions along the way, before submitting their findings – usually as a report and a presentation - by the end of the week on the Friday.