Teaching and Learning Tips
Put Your Killer-Course on I.C.E.
Killer-courses, or high-risk-courses, “are those traditionally difficult, entry-level courses wherein student D and F rates and withdrawals exceed 30 percent of course registrants” (Blanc, 1983). Many killer-courses are large classes where, according to Lee Shulman, “Students are disengaged, invisible, unaccountable, and emotionally disconnected most of the time” (Shulman, 2005) Instructors teaching these courses must counteract such disengagement, anonymity, unaccountability and apathy. The best way to counteract these problematic characteristic of killer-courses is to put them on I.C.E.