During the "Heartbeat 300 Passionate Classroom Sharing Moments" at the 2026 TEAM Model Experts Conference, Dean Chen Wei-Lu of Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology (CTUST) shared how he utilized HiTeach to flip the review model for the national nursing licensing exam. From early IRS clicker interaction to a decade of the "Basic Medical Science Challenge," and evolving into the "TOP 5 Nurse Licensing Exam Challenge" and the "National Health Knowledge King Competition," Dean Chen transformed stressful exam preparation into an engaging, gamified team learning journey. Judging by the performance of participating students, this review model has demonstrated significant positive impacts on national exam pass rates.
Dean Chen Wei-Lu delivered a talk titled "Flipping Nurse Licensing Exam Review with HiTeach," sharing how he expanded HiTeach from a classroom interaction tool into a vital platform for campus-wide exam review tournaments and national health knowledge competitions. This transformed what was originally a stressful exam preparation into an engaging learning journey where student teams actively embraced challenges.
For higher education faculty, classroom instruction often presents a real challenge: teachers prepare a vast amount of professional content, yet students may not maintain continuous engagement. Reflecting on his early days teaching at CTUST, Dean Chen recalled preparing extensive basic medical science materials with high expectations, only to see students gradually lose focus during lectures. At that moment, he realized that to truly help students master professional knowledge, traditional one-way lecturing needed to change.
It was against this backdrop that he came across HiTeach.
At that time, HiTeach was paired with IRS clickers. Before every class, Dean Chen would bring a whole box of clickers and his laptop into the classroom. Students even affectionately nicknamed him "The Remote Control Teacher." For him, beyond imparting knowledge and solving doubts, a teacher's priority is bringing student attention back to the room. Through instant answering, buzz-ins, point rewards, and interactive designs, what was once a silent college classroom developed a fresh sense of active participation. This interactive foundation laid the groundwork for his future exam review innovations.
For nursing students at CTUST facing the national licensing exam, basic medical science has always been a particularly challenging subject. Dean Chen observed that if exam review merely required students to repeatedly memorize notes and solve past papers, they would easily feel stressed and exhausted. Therefore, starting in 2015, he launched the "Basic Medical Science Challenge," using HiTeach to create gamified review tournaments so students could re-engage with exam priorities in an enjoyable setting.
This initiative was held consistently year after year, accumulating over a decade of practical experience. As the competition expanded, it grew beyond basic medical science to encompass all major nursing licensing exam subjects, officially evolving into the "TOP 5 Nurse Licensing Exam Challenge."
Teams answer questions simultaneously in real-time, testing core fundamentals and accumulating baseline team points.
Questions in the early round earn 1 point each, while later questions double to 2 points, dramatically increasing suspense and strategic depth.
Teams enter head-to-head PK duels. Members take turns buzzing in via HiTeach, incorporating wildcard cards like player swaps or point deductions.
The competition also incorporated "Wildcard" mechanics, allowing students to deploy strategic moves at critical moments—such as substitution, point deductions, or special rules. This design ensured exam review was no longer an isolated battle against question banks, but a multi-dimensional challenge requiring knowledge, rapid reflexes, teamwork, and on-the-spot judgment.
On the tournament floor, students didn't just answer questions; they cheered for teammates, celebrated correct answers, and even entered intense "sudden death" tiebreakers. Dean Chen shared that in the recent TOP 5 Nurse Licensing Exam Challenge, the first-place championship was unexpectedly claimed by a team of four freshman students. Winning the cash prize, they demonstrated the immense engagement and potential lower-grade students can achieve through gamified learning.
Through HiTeach, this exam review event possessed the thrilling atmosphere of a televised quiz show. Real-time answering, buzz-ins, point scoring, PK duels, strategy cards, and instant feedback allowed students to repeatedly review professional knowledge in a highly engaged environment. What could have been an intimidating exam preparation was turned into a shared journey of team growth.
More importantly, this tournament-style review was not just lively and fun—it produced tangible results in academic performance.
In his presentation, Dean Chen shared compiled data regarding nursing exam pass rates. Overall, the national pass rate for the nursing licensing exam averages around 60%, whereas CTUST averages around 80%. Most strikingly, when observing students who actively participated in the review tournaments, their pass rate reached over 90%. While academic success is influenced by multiple factors, the performance of participating students clearly demonstrates that gamified review provides significant positive assistance.
Behind this achievement, the key was not just that HiTeach offered answering tools, but that it made review participatory, interactive, and cumulative. Students repeatedly encountered national exam question formats during matches, while discussing answers, understanding concepts, and correcting mistakes in teams. For faculty, tournament analytics also highlighted student proficiency across different knowledge points, serving as valuable references for follow-up remedial teaching.
Beyond internal nursing exam reviews, this HiTeach-centered competition model extended into a national event. CTUST hosts the "National Health Knowledge King Competition," inviting high school and vocational school teams from across Taiwan to participate. Using HiTeach IRS clickers for real-time answering, students showcase their health and healthcare literacy.
The National Health Knowledge King Competition is not only a trivia contest but also a vital platform for promoting health education, cultivating healthcare professionals, and introducing secondary school students to CTUST. Through real-time answering and tournament design, student participants demonstrate learning outcomes in an exciting atmosphere while discovering the professional value of healthcare fields.
From initial college classroom interactions to nursing licensing exam reviews, and extending to national health knowledge competitions, Dean Chen Wei-Lu's practice illustrates HiTeach's multi-faceted potential in higher education. It goes beyond single-classroom instruction to support large-scale events, boosting engagement, professional review, and institutional recruitment.
At the conclusion of his talk, Dean Chen remarked that when you work hard for one thing for ten years, happiness is found in every footprint along the way. This sentiment perfectly encapsulates the evolutionary journey of the TOP 5 Nurse Licensing Exam Challenge.
For over ten years, HiTeach has accompanied this tournament as it evolved from department-level innovation to a campus-wide exam review model, and further into a national healthcare knowledge competition. It helps students find belonging amidst academic pressure and discover team strength during revision, turning exam preparation into a memorable, collaborative, and rewarding educational journey.
