{"id":7693,"date":"2020-06-09T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresourcesdev-v4\/?page_id=7693"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:30:34","slug":"estimating-student-hours-of-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/estimating-student-hours-of-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating Student Hours of Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As instructors adapt or design courses for remote teaching and learning many are asking questions about student workload, such as:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cWhat is reasonable to expect from students?\u201d and<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow can I avoid overwhelming students?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following blog post by Beth Hundey, educator, geographer and eLearning and Curriculum Specialist at Western University in Ontario, provides advice and practical tools that can help you estimate student hours of effort and prepare students for course work. For the average successful student in any course, Hundey recommends an average of eight to ten hours per week (or less). Given that teaching and learning interactions in the virtual classroom during times of disruption may take a little more time and effort, aim for an average at the low end of that range.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The post can be read here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.wfu.edu\/resources\/workload2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/cat.wfu.edu\/resources\/workload2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundey also explains:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>how to estimate student workload using the Rice University CTE Course Workload Estimator;<\/li>\n<li>how to analyze a course\u2019s work effort distribution during a semester using M. Lockett\u2019s Curriculum Cartography approach; and<\/li>\n<li>how to communicate the work estimates to students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.wfu.edu\/resources\/workload2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cEstimating Student Hours of Effort\u201d<\/a> is redistributed under an <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International<\/a> License (CC BY SA 4.0).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is what I am asking students to do each week reasonable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[295,273],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-design","tag-learning","tag-workload"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ruth Hickey","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/author\/rbhickey\/"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7y0Lp-205","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22513,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions\/22513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/instructionalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}