Major constraints in developing your course & challenges to address for success

• Will people sign up for the course because they have the interest to sustain them through the work, or will it be because it seems an easy fit for a requirement? The class is predicated on student interest in the topic; how will I ensure that? One idea: a course description that details high expectations of students, and emphasizes the language objectives so that it doesn’t sound like a “soft” class.
• Will students, the school and I have adequate access to necessary electronic resources?
• If not, how can I design a course that’s media-rich in concept, but fewer technical demands?
• How would I address a student’s lack technical of academic literacy that interfered with his/her ability to complete the task to the same standards of the others?

• If it is a university class, there needs to be standardized evaluative procedures. On what basis can one evaluate a creative project? I need an objective set of criteria, despite the potentially subjective nature of the outcome.

• How can I create and conduct such a class without burning out because of “scope creep” or unforeseen technical (or other) challenges that I’ll have to resolve for a successful outcome?

• How to make sure the language objectives don’t get lost in the logistics of pursuing the topic(s); in fact, how to keep them in focus — yet without being heavy-handed and losing the value of the theme approach.