On 30 October 2025, Olena Bondarets, a teacher of the Cyclic Commission of Management, Social Sciences, Humanities and Fundamental Disciplines, conducted a practical lesson using quest technologies on the topic ‘Choosing a Strategy and Developing a Strategic Plan’ with 4th year students, majoring in 073 Management, educational and professional programme ‘Service Organisation on Transport’.

The students were offered a plan for preparing and conducting the quest: preparation of a route sheet for completing the stages; preparation of questions and answers; completion of game tasks; and summing up the results. The completion of each stage of the quest resulted in the accumulation of points, which ultimately formed the scores of the quest participants.

The main part of the lesson included teams completing a series of quest stages: Stage 1: SWOT analysis (identifying strengths and weaknesses). Stage 2: Choosing a strategy (using Ansoff and BCG matrices). Stage 3: Formulating strategic goals. Stage 4: Developing elements of a strategic plan. Stage 5: Presenting the strategy.

Thus, the practical class, conducted in the form of a quest, provide an opportunity to immerse in the process of acquiring skills; develop individual cognitive and practical abilities; maximise identification of initiative, use of individual acquired knowledge; reveal critical thinking, competitiveness and leadership among students.

All students were involved in the work and were active and productive. This was facilitated by the effective selection of methods and forms of work, as well as the establishment of favourable and psychological conditions for effective interaction in the group and self-knowledge of students in the classroom. The purpose of the lesson was fully realised and the expected results were achieved.