“[It] lets students customize to their learning style and it really helps them think through where they might need a little extra time on task,” Quirk-Bailey said. Swaim said they reviewed studies done at colleges across the country, as well as took student surveys and collected data from ICC, finding that shorter course terms increased student success. “Courses that may have had 80% to the mid-80s percent of a success rate, with eight-week classes, they’re coming out well into the 90% of success rates,” Swaim said.
