For educators and doctoral programmes
Ready-made materials for teaching qualitative methods at Masters and doctoral level. Download them, adapt them, and teach them in your own course.
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The complete materials for two sessions of 60 to 90 minutes, designed for M.Sc. and Ph.D. level courses. Session 1 is conceptual and needs no software, so it also works as a stand-alone seminar. Session 2 is hands-on and walks through the research lifecycle in Skimle. Slide decks, a minute-by-minute course plan, in-class and post-session assignments and example materials are all included.
Free to use and adapt in your own teaching. Prepared in August 2026 by Henri Schildt, Professor of Strategy at Aalto University and co-founder of Skimle.
Session 1
60 to 90 minutes, no software required
Can machines take part in interpretation? Participants code a passage of an interview by hand, then compare their coding with a machine coding of the same passage. The session places AI within the long tradition of expert work scaffolded by artifacts, and closes on the practical risks and on a first draft of an AI disclosure paragraph for a Methods section.
Participants will be able to
Session 2
60 to 90 minutes, laptops and Skimle accounts
The qualitative research lifecycle stage by stage, practised hands-on in Skimle on a built-in demo dataset: design, data generation, familiarisation, theorising and reporting. Participants generate and verify document metadata, compare descriptive coding with theory-driven coding, and rebuild a category structure around a theoretical argument.
Participants will be able to
Session 1 slide deck
Artificial intelligence in qualitative research: what AI changes, and what it does not.
Session 2 slide deck
Using AI throughout your qualitative study, stage by stage.
Course plan
Learning objectives, minute-by-minute timings, condensed lecture content and instructor talking points for both sessions.
Example interview
The full NASA oral history interview with Neil Armstrong, plus the short excerpt used in the coding exercise.
Exercise materials
The prepared AI coding of that excerpt, to reveal after participants have coded it by hand.
It needs only a projector and a printed interview excerpt, so it also works as a single guest lecture inside an existing methods course.
Participants work in their own Skimle project on a demo dataset that is built into the product. A trial or institutional account is enough.
The timings assume 15 to 25 participants. With a larger group, make the small groups bigger rather than cutting the exercises: the exercises carry most of the learning.
The decks are PowerPoint files and the course plan is a Word document, so you can cut, reorder and translate them for your own students.
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