@ZolaBrunner, @FrankKane provided a great answer that I'd like to add one item to: A couple of years ago I cut over to project based courses. What does this mean: 1) Try to offer a take-away for the student as early as possible in your course. Keep offering these take-aways throughout the course. 2) Each section in my course comes with an article leccture based project that students respond to by submitting work for review by me and their peers to the Q&A section of the course. Since making this change students have responded in waves (in reality, it becomes a lot of work having to monitor and respond to all their section projects). Students like the projects that actually give them little modules of benefit they can take away from the course. In fact, quite often by the time they've finished the last project they've achieve the purpose of the course. If you want plenty of student course involvement and 1-on-1 interaction, project based courses is the way to go (IMHO). ---Brian
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