How to Use a Course Workload Estimator

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