Every summer I teach a type of course that has become more popular in a world of time-to-graduation metrics: the six week intensive. Usually taught online, and compressed significantly, this type of class prep is sometimes overwhelming and demands constant attention on the part of the faculty and students. I’ve gone through different stages of love-hate with the accelerated pace now that I’ve been teaching some repeated sections of the same course, and I’m past the conversion phase of figuring out what pieces of a sixteen week course simply resist compression. My focus this summer is on refining the experience, and particularly communicating to my students strategies for success in the condensed timeframe. I’ve found that a lot of things I do in the normal semester, like low stakes warm-up assignments and dropping grades in participating categories, don’t work on the six week schedule. Here’s a few policies I’m trying with my summer course to try to improve outcomes in the intensive course:
There are some challenges of the summer intensive model (like handling constant grading and feedback for upwards of 100 students within 24-48 hours so students can progress to the next milestone) that I honestly haven’t figured out how to improve, but with each iteration I see stronger outcomes from the class. Do you have any strategies for handling summer intensives? Share them in the comments! [“Deadvlei” by Sonse is licensed under CC BY] Revisiting the Online Summer Intensive syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr Revisiting the Online Summer Intensive
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