Microbes Against Humanity, a workshop game for horrible students: using a creative card game in higher education microbiology teaching: This article is part of the Pedagogy collection.

Georgios Efthimiou; Nicholas P. Tucker

doi:10.1099/acmi.0.000186

Volume 3, Issue 2

Pedagogy

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Microbes Against Humanity, a workshop game for horrible students: using a creative card game in higher education microbiology teaching

This article is part of the Pedagogy collection.

Georgios Efthimiou¹ and Nicholas P. Tucker²
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Biomedical and Forensic Sciences, Hardy Building, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK ² Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK
*Correspondence: Georgios Efthimiou, [email protected]
Published: 03 December 2020 https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000186

Abstract

Introducing creative workshops in higher education curricula, in addition to formal lectures, is an excellent way of reinforcing knowledge and encouraging creative thinking. In particular, the use of card games as a tool for inducing student engagement and enthusiasm has been reported to be a very effective approach. Here, we report an innovative card game-based workshop for use at the intermediate undergraduate level. The name of the game is Microbes Against Humanity and has been adapted from the widely known party game Cards Against Humanity, which is freely available under a creative commons licence. Overall, 64 students and two academics participated in this 2 h workshop. Our students found the workshop to be very enjoyable, considered it to be helpful for their learning and suggested interesting ideas for further improvement. In conclusion, it was shown that such exciting workshops can trigger students’ enthusiasm for microbiology and enhance their learning potential.

Received: 13/07/2020
Accepted: 16/11/2020
Published Online: 03/12/2020

Keyword(s): card game , creative teaching , gamification , higher education , Microbes Against Humanity and microbiology

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License. The Microbiology Society waived the open access fees for this article.

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