Move Toward Modules
Move Toward Modules Find a colleague who could also teach some course you teach. Agree to split the course in some manner (half and half, alternating weeks, what have you). Then, each of you offer a half-semester module on some elective topic (one of which might be a shortened version of what the other person would have taught).
- Shorter time can track with reducing focus on "coverage"
- Our students might be less intellectually winded by a 7 week course.
- Students get less far behind.
- Cost of choosing wrong course or wrong instructor is reduced.
- Predict fewer disappearing/burnt out student casualties (empirical question: we can study this).
- More variety.
- In the split course, if split as module A, module B the pedagogy can be built around two stages of consolidation for a final evaluation so that second half of course depends on demonstrated intermediate mastery.
- Dropping a module might not affect financial aid the say dropping a course does.
- It might be more fun as an instructor to teach different topics.
- Expands the repertoire a program can offer.
- More room for experimentation.
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