Teaching in Higher Ed

How to Use a Course Workload Estimator

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Betsy Barre talks about how (and why) to use a course workload estimator on episode 375 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The difference between an expert reader and a student reader is that an expert reader will slow down when they don’t know a word.

-Betsy Barre

Students are reading, they just aren’t reading well.

-Betsy Barre

Is this activity really worth it given my outcomes of the course?

-Betsy Barre

We all need to be talking more about time.

-Betsy Barre

Resources
  • Course Workload Estimator 2.0
  • Course Workload Estimator
  • How Much Should We Assign? Estimating Out of Class Workload, by Betsy Barre
  • So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?, by Keith Rayner et al
  • R Studio
  • Janet Evanovich’s Stephenie Plum novels

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