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427 points JumpCrisscross | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.001s | source
1. LZ_Khan ◴[] No.41904610[source]
isnt the easiest solution to this just to make homework optional? Put all the weight into in class written exams and just have more of them.
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2. acdha ◴[] No.41904690[source]
It’s the most obvious but it’s expensive. At the very least, I think it’d mean that we need to hire more teachers since it takes much longer to give exams or grade oral/handwritten ones and you’d need to restructure the academic schedule – for example, if the work of writing a report has to be done in person, you need to find hours during the week where students can do that work under supervision but the schedule is already full of instruction time.

In practice, reconsidering how clsssed are structured is a good idea but this is forcing it to happen all at once without any additional resources.