Hello Kristin,
Thank you for sharing management strategy for cohorts. Indeed, the mixing is good. I am on both ends of understanding cohorts . . . as an instructor and as a student. In my current class as a student, I am called a "drop-in." A drop-in student did not begin with the cohort, nor does that person follow the cohort to its completion. Acceptance into the cohort may vary with openness, maturity, diversity, and other factors.
Our cohorts in the program where I instruct bond (or isolate students) early on, in the General Ed. courses. By the time they… >>>