Yet I have found that students value the intense interaction and the ability to make personal choices so much that they forgive the errors. I have seen lessons and whole courses fail simply because students lost faith in them. This has not happened with InterQuest in seven terms. Frankly, this amazes me. The potential for utter fiasco has been so near so many times, yet the student will to succeed and to adapt has always resulted in a net benefit for all.
Students are central.
My advice is to devise a means by which you stay in regular contact with students. Eventually, almost all of them respond. Organizational Learning In Winter 1997, InterQuest became a pilot course for the OSU High School Outreach project. The course is now offered for OSU credit online to all high schools in Oregon, which is a significant advance for the course in terms of institutional stability. And it is a significant advance in the institution in recognizing the potential of the Web to reach a vast and currently undeveloped population of learners for higher education.