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Design Thinking Applied to Pedagogy: How to Transform Student Engagement with Peer Assessment Solutions

A Practical Case Study: Liem Nguyen, Professor of Management Practice, and his use of FeedbackFruits

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By Marion Marx, Instructional designer.

This article offers a follow-up to a previously published piece “The Design Thinking Approach Applied to Pedagogy: Human-Centered and Impactful Learning Experiences”. In this second installment, we focus on a practical example of implementing an innovative, learner-centered assessment strategy.

In this context, we immediately thought of our ongoing collaboration with Liem Nguyen, Professor of Management Practice at ESSEC since 2023. Driven by a desire to foster strong attention and engagement among his students, Liem Nguyen approached the K-lab to explore various pedagogical methods and tools capable of delivering seamless, tech-enhanced learning experiences—for both instructors and learners. Supported by instructional designer Nadia Kelmouss, he selected the FeedbackFruits platform, and more specifically, the “Group Member Evaluation” tool.

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Training Humans for Artificial Intelligence Age: On Teaching Pilots to Control the Computer as Well as They Can “Fly the Plane”

Fabrice Cavarretta, professor in the Management Department and in charge of the PhD seminar on Pedagogy at ESSEC, co-author of the book Prière de rendre votre écosystème moins absurde (Payot, 2024).

Generative AI, particularly its text-generating capabilities, has gained significant attention in recent years. Experts often identify the education sector, specifically pedagogy, as an industry that may face significant changes due to AI.

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Male-only Oscars? Why gender matters for teaching awards

By Anne JENY, Professor of Accounting. Anne strongly believes that research and teaching nurture each other, she favors interactive pedagogy in her courses (case studies, group projects, companies interventions) & Laurence LESCOURRET, Associate Professor of Finance. To Laurence, teaching is transmitting knowledge by using a mix of lessons, interactive methods (like teaching games or cases) and students/participants feedback.

Why are there different interpretive awards for actors and actresses, but no consideration of gender in teacher performance evaluations in the classroom? It has been shown for many years that there is a gender bias in student assessmentsLire la suite »