The risk felt when moving towards active learning can be mitigated by rubrics that all for defining and assessing assignments and assuring that students will work towards the necessary breadth and depth of the subject matter. The illustration of the director seems fitting, although it is possible that in Hollywood the director's role is far more detailed than what is described in this course. I see bringing the streams together, that is 1. the studied and lived expertise of an instructor who has dedicated decades to understanding a topic, and 2. the active inquiry of the student who will better understand and remember if they are more engaged in the process of the transmission of this knowledge to them.
