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Rice has a very interesting calculator to estimate how much time you can expect your students to have to spend on your coursework out of class. I’d love to hear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
Rice has a very interesting calculator to estimate how much time you can expect your students to have to spend on your coursework out of class. I'd love to hear if any of you think it is accurate.<\/p>
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