[candiddevmike]

Are you seeing a shift in class duration to accomplish this? For my kids, I don't see how their classes can squeeze both instruction time + work time in the allocated slots. Is instruction time being sacrificed or "replacing" homework (watching videos/reading text at home)?

[orwin]

A friend of mine seems to have switched to a "exercise/exam in school, learn at home" methodology, where the next lesson is given in sheet format at the end of the hour, and "school" is mostly exercises he uses to see how much each student understand. It seems to be quite happy with this, and told me good students are quite happy with this (lessons are learned at their own pace), and poor ones now have more time with him helping them during the exercises. Only issue is that he now have troubles not talking to/helping students during exams and now really hate those (always disliked them as well as grading, but now it seems worse).

He also heavily encourage student to learn with each other during "perm" hours (basically in highschool, hours where student have to stay in school but have nothing to do and can work on their own, go to the library or play/chill/whatever), but that was before and because he fondly remember the days where all 26 of us, the full class, all teamed together against homework (yeah, i had great classmates)

[oerdier]

In principle nothing about the structure of the course has to change. You can keep an existing course with instruction during class and and working on a project outside of class. Even handing in the project and grading could stay the same, although the grade for the project wouldn't be recorded and would serve only as an indication. You then add a longer test at the very end, for a grade.

How I set up my course is different from traditional education. Most instruction happens from self study (including videos and software). Face to face time is for questions. All elements, material, staff, and students, have to be tuned for this setup to work though and is hard to pivot to in existing setups because education (in the Netherlands at least) is very entrenched.

This self-study centered learning approach, like the in-person tests instead of projects, comes from necessity. Great (and I expect ever increasing) teacher shortages.