Shi Min's Story: Introduction

Introduction

Narrator: "Shi Min has been redesigning her on-ground introductory engineering course. Last fall was her first time delivering it and she has mixed feelings about how it went. Shi Min set up her schedule so that she would cover big lecture topics the day before her students went through an associated lab. When Students arrived in lab they would receive a packet to work through with their partner. Shi Min had intended those packets to be done by the end of lab, but noticed that more and more students were having trouble getting through the required materials as the term continued. Shi Min heard from students that they were feeling unprepared for the lab, bogged down by the introduction to the content, and then rushed to get the hands-on portions done on time. Shi Min is worried that if she cuts anymore content students will lose out on material necessary for the next course of the sequence. Weighing in the back of Shi Min's mind were student requests for review sessions for the class and lab material, but without space in the schedule to put them, Shi Min has hit a course design roadblock."

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