Homework!

hehe. why were you not involved before?

when i first registered on the site, it was just to do one specific thing. i did not take the time to look around and realize how awesome the site was!! in dec 08 i looked around a lot for the first time and was awed. within 1 month i joined site staff.

lol. thats pretty impressive. what was the one specific thing? play live?

chess mentor; and at the time (i was travelling to lots of tournaments) it looked like too much work for me.

ah right..

Well given that I would be investing my finances into a pretty finite time slot, I would allocate more time than normal. One of the things I would check when signing up for the course would be ample time during that period. That being said, I think 30 minutes to an hour per day is a good idea. I think if you delve to much deeper into required times than you are really hurting those of us with normal job hours(well with families :P).

i'd say at least 45 min a day but more is fine too

Between the office and home, I am lucky to spend a few hours a week on chess, education and play combined... The ideal homework/study time on a weekly basis for me would be between 2-3 hours. I don't know how well I fit the demographic for your target market, but I am always willing to invest time, and money, in the betterment of my chess game...

cool, thanks again to everyone for the info.

David-- I don't know how much burden it would place on you, but giving some form of individualized homework with the smaller class sizes could be very effective at teaching a particular idea that one student doesn't grasp as naturally.

In a sense, it's the same philosophy on how they grade(d) homework through my training. Unsatisfactory answers were required to be corrected and checked against a key, and that forced someone to look at what they did wrong and see the correct answer at the same time.

I see this working well for things like puzzles and developing plans; however, it would require more time commitment from the students and probably a significant amount of effort on your part to keep up with it, if homework is given daily.

i will be reviewing people's work and progress through the forums, and i will certainly offer them advice on what they personally need to do to make progress. i won't require them to do any work beyond what the advertised course requirements are, but i'll certainly encourage them!

I try to do a hour a day.

Not sure! 

For the 45 hour/week regular working guy how much time is required per week?

pcbeatty, it depends on the course. the instructors will plan different amounts of homework for different types of course, aimed at different groups of students. the point of this thread was to gather some info about how much people would want to do, so that can be taken into account in the planning phase. the first course which i am teaching (started on saturday, but still possible to register late and catch up easily) expects between 3 and 3.5 hours per week from the students; while also offering them ways they can double that to make greater progress.

Personally I spend about 2 hrs min a day studying on my own.This is if we dont include all the games from masters I like watching.If im paying my hard earned money(given I am a college student working full time) I would hope for no less than 3 hrs a day.

good to know :)

most teachers really like working with students who are willing to put in a lot of hours like that.

mini 2 hours daily!! this is what I do..

An hour a day, every day, should be good for me.

Cheers,

Inumica

what about various options? develop "extra material" for those that can devote >1hr a day but center the main discussion on homework that can be done in 30-60 min. that way, we also can look at what might have been assigned that we couldnt get to, later in the year.