<p>Betsy Barre talks about how (and why) to use a course workload estimator on episode 375 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br />
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>The difference between an expert reader and a student reader is that an expert reader will slow down when they don’t know a word.<br />
-Betsy Barre</p>
<p>Students are reading, they just aren’t reading well.<br />
-Betsy Barre</p>
<p>Is this activity really worth it given my outcomes of the course?<br />
-Betsy Barre</p>
<p>We all need to be talking more about time.<br />
-Betsy Barre</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/tools/estimator2/">Course Workload Estimator 2.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cte.rice.edu/workload">Course Workload Estimator</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cte.rice.edu/blogarchive/2016/07/11/workload">How Much Should We Assign? Estimating Out of Class Workload, by Betsy Barre</a></li>
<li><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100615623267">So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?, by Keith Rayner et al</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.rstudio.com">R Studio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://evanovich.com/plum-series/">Janet Evanovich’s Stephenie Plum novels</a></li>
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