Case Study From Scotland’s Rural College: The Wild(Life) Side of Pair Programming

A fascinating story about a group of students from Scotland’s Rural College who pair-analysed environmental data in Excel. Most of students did not join the BSc Wildlife and Conservation Management to learn coding or data analysis. But they will need those skills in their daily work of maintaining natural environments. The author describes a journey of searching and testing various ways to excite the class, which then culminates in cross-pollinating of ideas a buzzing classroom.

This chapter is for you if you want to be inspired by how a simple change in a teaching method can transform the classroom - especially when the teacher emphatically customises it for the specific audience.