A startup may begin by crowdsourcing their logo, hire a freelance designer for ad hoc assignments, engage with a consultancy for longer-term projects, then arrive at hiring a designer and begin building strategic design capabilities.
Any of these scenarios can lead to a student acting-out, not doing their assignments, engaging in inappropriate activities/behaviors, or worse such as leaving school without a diploma/degree or experiencing negative outcomes (e.g., going to jail, an inability to obtain meaningful employment).
Among the major carriers, United has had the worst recent history of worker revolt: In the summer of 2000, the pilots, angered at seeing their old contract expire during negotiations, stopped accepting overtime assignments and engaged in what executives called a slowdown.
In fact, the constant stream of small assignments that engaged students in active learning and self-assessment throughout the semester appeared to be welcomed.
Introducing the freedom to select their own reading passage makes reading and writing assignments more engaging for students, and every student I've worked with has appreciated these assignments as a break in standardized homework.
As a Graduate Student Instructor, I strive to encourage all students to read their assignments and engage in class discussions.
Each week you will write a short piece (1-3 pages) that responds to these assignments while engaging your own daily life.
Online learning, as with any academic endeavor, does require significant effort and a commitment to keeping up with the assignments and engaging with the course material.
Our new assignments did engage students in between-tree comparisons to some extent, as the tree construction exercises of the final three assignments were intentionally designed to have multiple most-parsimonious answers.
Keeping students engaged through assignments that are challenging, but not unrealistically long and tedious, also helps.
