hours per week for students studies

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Discussion at faculty Facebook group regarding the syllabus directions for students’ work in online class:

how many hours of regular student work do you think is appropriate to expect from students for an online course of this nature? The class would normally have 3 hours of in-class instruction.

 

2 Comments on hours per week for students studies

  1. John
    April 26, 2020 at 12:10 am (4 years ago)

    As many or as few as needed, depending on the individual’s background and learning habits. For a few years I’ve considered mastery learning but the lecture/exam structure doesn’t really allow that. Maybe online is the right place to do it. In this case I imagine a rather large amount of practice/homework, quizzes and tests are required so students can practice until they are confident, and take a quiz or test and repeat quizzes/tests with different randomized questions and only move on when they achieve say 80% or 90% mastery. How we assess those tests will be a completely different question. There are faculty on campus who do mastery with D2L. Would be great to reach out to them for comments.

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