After having familiarized myself with Lean and read the book Lean Teaching by Bob Emiliani (see Featured Post in the left column), I have decided to use VCCs in all my courses as a way of telling the students what I think that they shoukd at least remember from the course. This course, Basics of Project Management, is divided into five Parts with different topics. I will give a VCC for each part and the example below is from the first Introduction Part. I just love to do this visual presentations. It is also a way for me to reflect on the course content again and get new insights. The idea is that I publish these VCCs in the end of the two weeks period for each Part which means that the student has already studies the topic and will be able to use the VCC as a recollection. My goal as a teacher is that it will give the student some "Ahaa's" and perhaps a desire to go back to study the material and check for details again. All this to help the deep learning process to happen.
An example of a Visual Control Card from my course Basics of Project Management. You can enlarge it by clicking on the picture.
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