Small-group teaching

If you were to ask someone with no experience of university about different HE classes, you might expect that they would have some notion of two types of classes: lectures, and small-group classes. They probably have a very traditional view of what the former would be. They might be less clear about the latter, both in terms of what a small group class is called (supervisions, tutorials, seminars, exercise classes, workshops, PC labs - depending on the subject and the institution) and about what might actually happen in this class, although they would probably expect more of a conversation between students and tutors…