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Teaching load is contact hours multiplied by a preparation ratio, plus marking. Eight contact hours at 1.5 preparation is twenty hours a week, and 120 students at 25 minutes each is fifty hours per assessment round. Across a twelve week term with two assessments that is 340 hours - 42.5% of a term's working time.
Weekly teaching
hours = contact hours x (1 + preparation ratio)
Marking
hours = students x minutes per student / 60
Two to three hours per contact hour for a new module, falling to about one for a course taught repeatedly. Institutional models often assume too little.
Because it scales with student numbers rather than contact hours, so a large cohort can make marking the single largest component.