I keep laughing because you guys have the exact same videos that I’ve been using.  But I’m angry because I’ve spent hours searching for them, and I’m thinking ‘oh, no, here they are!’

I used to do 4 exams and my colleague said that was way too much content to ask them to cover.  She said that students navigate the course better if you grade them more frequently.  That’s why I started grading them on chapter quizzes. The students liked this better, and courseware makes it easier for me to do.

Students are reading differently than we did… they are reading in chunks.  Their attention span is different.  We’ve been fighting this and I think we’ve come around to “this is just the way they read”. Working through parts of reading and assessing as you go can be more effective.  That’s why I like the self-checks because they apply to the “chunks”.  You’ve catered to millennials.  It’s active reading and it’s chunky reading.

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