FACILITATOR TOOLKIT
Study Strategy Swap Bingo™
A facilitated, game-based learning experience that gets students talking about how they study, learning from one another, and choosing what to try next.
Turn study strategies into something students can learn from each other with Study Strategy Swap Bingo™.
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Ready. Set. Swap.
Study Strategy Swap Bingo™ is a facilitated learning experience that helps students recognize the study strategies they already use, learn how peers put other approaches into practice, consider research alongside their own results, and choose one realistic strategy to try next.
TAKE A TOUR OF THE TOOLKIT
Everything ready. Every step supported.
The Facilitator Toolkit includes everything you need to prepare, facilitate the experience, and capture observations and feedback for learning and assessment.
Adapts easily for in-person and virtual use, from classrooms and workshops to coaching and tutoring sessions.
THE POWER OF PEER LEARNING
“The [Study Strategy Swap Bingo] game yielded some of the most significant sharing of techniques among the students themselves as they discussed and taught their own processes to each other.”
— Dr. Rick VanDyke, Assistant Director of Tutoring & Learning Support
THE STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE
How It Works
Four sequenced moves across a single session.
Study Strategy Swap Bingo gets students talking about what they already do, learning concrete approaches from peers, considering what research suggests, and choosing one move they are ready to try.
Recognize Practices
Students surface and identify learning practices they already use and notice patterns in how they approach studying.
Exchange Strategies
Students share, compare, and capture practical strategies and tactical advice directly with peers.
Reflect on Effectiveness
Students compare lived experience with learning research and reflect on what works, and doesn't work, for them.
Plan the Next Step
Students use a behavior-based formula to plan a realistic learning experiment, with continued access to the card as a study-strategy resource.
Why It Works
Study Strategy Swap Bingo is built from established findings in the learning sciences.
Each phase of the experience in the Facilitated Edition draws on a distinct body of research.
Sociocultural & Peer Learning
Learning through interaction, exchange, explanation, and shared experience.
Experiential & Reflective Learning
Examining experience and making meaning from it.
Cognitive Science
Effective practices for learning, remembering, and retrieving information.
Transfer & Action
Carrying insights and strategies into future situations and contexts.
Accessible & Inclusive Learning Design
Providing multiple ways to access, participate in, and engage with the experience.
Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning (SRL)
Recognizing, evaluating, selecting, and adapting learning strategies.
Motivation & Learner Agency
Supporting choice, ownership, competence, and purposeful action.
WHERE IT FITS
Bring learning how to learn into the places where students are doing the learning.
Across Academic Programs
STEM • Nursing & Health Professions • Social Sciences • Business • Humanities • Professional Programs
Across the Student Experience
First-Year Experience • Gateway Courses • High-Enrollment Courses • Tutoring & Learning Centers • Academic Coaching • Orientation • Student Success Programs
Ready to Bring Study Strategy Swap Bingo to Your Campus?
A Small Investment in How Students Learn
Bring Study Strategy Swap Bingo™ to the courses, programs, and student-support settings where learners are doing the real work of learning.
Annual licensing includes the complete Facilitator Toolkit, with the implementation guidance, ready-to-use materials, reflection tools, and assessment resources needed to deliver a structured, evidence-informed learning experience.
Choose your license
Select the license that matches who will use Study Strategy Swap Bingo™ during the 12-month term.
Individual Facilitator License — $195/year
One practitioner • Up to 350 learners
Department/Program License — $595/year
For broader use across a department or program
Multi-unit or Campus-wide License — Request a custom quote here