{"id":2040,"date":"2019-03-23T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/82365-teaching-at-scale\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:49","slug":"82365-teaching-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/82365-teaching-at-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"82:365 | Teaching at Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve designed and facilitated massive open online courses (MOOCs), so I shouldn&#8217;t flinch when I see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/higher-ed-gamma\/teaching-scale\">an article about Teaching at Scale<\/a>. However, I&#8217;ve also taught small classes and appreciate the difference in the experience for me, as well as students. This is why I struggle with takes like this, as I know how hard (impossible?) it is to effectively &#8220;scale&#8221; what is described below:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scale need not be a dirty word. All it requires is a willingness to think outside the box \u2014 while remembering that for most undergraduates, educational success requires structure, substantive interaction with a knowledgeable instructor, frequent feedback, and a sense of belonging.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve designed and facilitated massive open online courses (MOOCs), so I shouldn&#8217;t flinch when I see an article about Teaching at Scale. However, I&#8217;ve also taught small classes and appreciate the difference in the experience for me, as well as students. This is why I struggle with takes like this, as I know how hard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}