[codingdave]

It would need to spend at least 80% of its time on activities where being in-person makes a difference. I don't want to spend 8 hours hearing a lecture that I could skim via YouTube in 30 minutes. Don't read presentations at us. Don't make us work through a curriculum that we could have done at home. If you are teaching a large group, odds are the individual attention is low enough that we could have just watched the course from home.

Instead, show us things hands-on, where being able to interact directly with each other and the instructor matters - let people ask questions, speed up the course if we are getting fast, slow down when questions come up, and don't let one slow person or one fast person ruin the pacing for the rest of the group.

I'm not sure exactly what that would look like, but I'd think hard about why being in-person matters, and construct the day accordingly.

[digitalWestie]

Yess! All these things. My goal is to make it hands on as possible. Numbers will be capped so I can get around everyone. If more people sign up I'll have an assistant.

When I've done this before it works well. The only snag is where people are at different levels and want to go different speeds. But this is where bonus exercises/stretch goals can set challenge for those racing ahead.