Expectations for Web Calculus Students
Time To judge your work load for this course, imagine that you are in a MWF 11:00 a.m. calculus class that meets for 70 minutes each meeting, 3 times a week for 15 weeks. Your instructor and the college catalogue suggest that you study 2 hours outside of class for each hour in class. Being a good math student, you calculate how much time you should minimally allow each week for calculus:
(70 min/mtg + 2 * 70 min/mtg ) * 3 mtgs/wk = (210) * 3 min/mtg * mtg/wk = 630 min/wk
630 min/wk / (60 min/hr) = 10.5 hrs/wk to devote on calculus.
Then you add in the overhead of a portion of the travel time to and from campus and class, say 2 hrs/wk, and obtain about 12.5 hrs/wk that you must minimally allow for calculus in a regular lecture course.
Since web courses, take, if anything, more time than traditional formats, you can estimate that this course might well take 12 to 15 hrs/wk of work after you get used to the multi-window format.
To be successful you (probably) need this level of effort.