Zooming Through Long-Block Classes
Spring 2020 semester, Associate Professor Matt Marx taught two “long block” courses online: one with 3-hour sessions and another with 8-hour sessions. In this presentation, he shares techniques for keeping students engaged for extended periods of time, how to avoid gimmicks that backfire, etc.
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Matt Marx
mattmarx@bu.eduMatt Marx is associate professor of strategy and innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business and was previously associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies the mobility of knowledge workers as well as the commercialization and diffusion of new…