Ok Folks,
This multichannel approach should work well. Some students enjoy reading, others prefer videos and video lectures.
In my Contemporary Literature class, we use the physical books, audiobooks that can be listened to while reading along, video lectures, live zoom lectures, verbal and written discussions, and both pre-critical responses and periodic essays about the readings.
So, there is a kind of shotgun effect going on here.
Yet... a full third of the class attempts to skate by with substandard work - and half of these with no coursework at all.
I don't believe that the 'rich learning experience' helps in this regard.
Students that are motivated certainly have a better experience, but those careless students care even less.
