The tutorial content from the nursing undergraduate human physiology unit historically incorporated a series of topic questions that students were asked to work on in class, with intermittent slides to discuss the answers. These 2 hour content-heavy tutorials were laborious for the tutor and did not engage students. After a year of online teaching, we were back in the classroom and I transformed all tutorials for this unit in the format of jigsaw learning, the students answered a single question as a group and then groups were re-allocated so that one student could teach their new group the answer they addressed. This team teaching arrangement saw students more engaged given their need to understand the content at a level they could teach and meant that class discussion of the answers held everyone’s attention.
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