Sadly this is a senior level course. Trends in academia are crazy. I appreciate the value of discussion time or project time, but I need the students to grasp the basics before I can ask more. I am disappointed in the knowledge they leave the first two years with at my institution.
Put my lectures online so the students could watch them then we'd spend time in class on discussions (called flipping the classroom). I know they watched them as I could track that, but what else they did during that time I have no clue. I can tell you they scored 20 pct points lower on a very...