Weekly projects designed for an introductory psychology telecourse encourage student involvement in psychology, even for the remote learner. Interaction with other telecourse students (by phone) and with family and friends makes the telecourse much less passive and impersonal. The projects add sufficient content that the commerical one-semester package can be expanded to a three-term sequence. At the end of a year's trial period, measures of academic performance and attrition, as well as student evaluations, were all found to be positive.
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