Revisiting the Online Summer Intensive

Every summer I teach a type of course that has become more popular in a world of time-to-graduation metrics: the six week intensive. Usually taught online, and compressed significantly, this type of class prep is sometimes overwhelming and demands constant attention on the part of the faculty and students.

I’ve gone through different stages of love-hate with the accelerated pace now that I’ve been teaching some repeated sections of the same course, and I’m past the conversion phase of figuring ...