Virginia S. Lee & Associates
			Higher Education Consulting
				Teaching, Learning and Assessment
					Teaching Intensive Courses
					We developed a seminar on teaching summer session courses that was awarded the 2000 Creative and Innovative Program Award of Merit for an Administrative Program by the North American Association of Summer Sessions. We based the seminar on the small research literature on teaching intensive courses such as summer sessions, inter-terms and other compressed teaching and learning formats. We challenged instructors to capitalize on some of the potential benefits of teaching intensive courses such as continuity and immersion and to minimize some of the pitfalls such as increased pace of instruction and longer class periods. In the end, however, the existing research literature does not provide much guidance on how teaching and learning in compressed versus traditional formats differ. Since then we have explored possible linkages between teaching and learning in intensive courses and related literatures on vivid memories and the brain. We are eager to explore the connections between these divergent literatures and instructional practice with individuals teaching in intensive courses of whatever stripe in a half-day session.