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.

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