Managing Time: Best Practices for Course Credit Hour Calculations
A component of TSU’s Spring 2024
Faculty Development Peer to Peer Conversations
Tuesday, January 9, 2024, 11:00 – 11:45 am (central)
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87418124525

Session Recording link: https://tnstate.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8048a33e-c0a4-45f6-8db1-b0f20127c3fd

Session Description:

Providing clear direction up front in syllabi promotes academic rigor and helps students understand how to be successful in a course. This session will present best practices for calculating course credit hours to provide clear direction to students regarding expectations for the amount of time to be spent on the individual components of course work assigned. This session will discuss how to ensure you are assigning an appropriate amount of work overall, as well as how to make activity calculations for common student tasks such as reading, writing papers, preparing oral presentations, and working in groups. Practices for planning faculty workload time to ensure the appropriate amount of direct instruction hours will also be discussed.

Session Learning Objectives:

–Comprehend core concepts for Carnegie unit credit hour course calculations.

–Understand why specifying time-on-task calculations are important.

–Secure access to resources for planning time on task calculations. 

Participants, please complete the Session Evaluation Survey:
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Download Dr. Cyn’s PPT slides here.

Download TSU’s Policy Recommendations for Course Credit Hour Calculations here.

Access Wake Forrest’s Workload Estimator here: https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/workload2/