Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding (2006) Online
We follow Susan and Robert at University. Susan is a model student that is there to learn; Robert does not really care about the learning in itself - he just wants to pass exams and get a degree, so he can get a decent job.
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Anne Aasborg | - | SOLO 3 Student |
| Allan Andersen | - | SOLO 4 Student |
| Hanne Leth Andersen | - | Level 3 Teacher |
| Lars Arge | - | Entertainer Teacher |
| Doina Bucur | - | Susan |
| Michael E. Caspersen | - | Bad Level 2 Teacher |
| Henrik Bærbak Christensen | - | Good Level 2 Teacher |
| Dennis Decker Jensen | - | SOLO 1 Student |
| Torben K. Jensen | - | Didactics Expert |
| Mogens Nielsen | - | Level 1 Teacher |
| Lea Troels Møller Pedersen | - | Interviewed Student 1 |
| Richard Raskin | - | Narrator |
| Erik Meineche Schmidt | - | Dean |
| Rune Thorbek | - | Robert |
| Michael Westergaard | - | Interviewed Student 2 |
The very last scene in the film, featuring Susan (Doina Bucur) and Robert (Rune Thorbek) collaborating on an exercise, was incidentally the very first scene to be shot.
In the last scene of the film, Susan (Doina Bucur) and Robert (Rune Thorbek) were actually put to solve a real live exercise (an exam exercise from the Semantics 2006 course at Aarhus University, taught by director Claus Brabrand). Thus, the spontaneous enthusiasm and excitement at the end (when they finally did solve the exercise) is entirely real - and just happened to coincide with the exact same moment that Jacob Andersen (camera-man) was zooming out to get the final disengaging-the-film effect.
The film is now used around the world for educational development and for teaching teachers how to teach.
Torben K. Jensen added the part about "Teaching/Learning Activities" when he delivered "the solution" (i.e., Constructive Alignment), increasing the precision with respect to John Biggs' Theory of Constructive Alignment.
The old black ink-pads used for the stamps in the first part of the film had gone missing, so the director sacrificed his black socks and cut them into shape (in order to have them resemble black ink-pads). The result looks convincingly real.
The script originally featured extra "level 2 teacher scenes" for so-called "teacher metaphors" (policeman, gardener, petrol station tenant, guide, evangelist, ...). However, these were dropped because they didn't advance the main story of the film.
The mountain in the Hallelujah scene is Cotopaxi seen from Pichincha next to Quito, Ecuador (taken by the director on vacation a few weeks before the shooting started).
Rune was told to be careful in not getting bruised in his martial arts training during the weekend (the shooting lasted five days with a weekend in between), but returned on the set the following Monday, bruised on one cheek.
Most of the people involved in the film are either Ph.D. students or academic staff from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Doina and Rune were both Ph.D. Students at the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.