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Criterion
Paper illustration for World Café.
Facilitation
World Café
Paper illustration for Peer Instruction.
Knowledge Modeling
Peer Instruction
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
Purposedifferent
When a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity.Peer Instruction uses group thinking to clarify difficult terms or concepts faster. The method combines individual reflection with social correction and shared precision.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
60-180 min10-20 min je Frage15-45 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
12-100+6-501-101-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared QuestionsConcept Questions, Vote Results, Learning NotesMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking
LearningDialogueFacilitation
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
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