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**What is intensive teaching?**
(Davies, 2006)

Intensive teaching takes several different forms and is known by several different terms, including: accelerated, time-shortened, block format, compressed and intensive modes of delivery or (IMD). Each term puts a slightly different slant on its definition. For the purposes of this wiki, we will use the term "intensive teaching" or IT, defined below as a mode of teaching, learning and course delivery that: 
 * falls outside the traditional semester structure of of 36 hours per week for 12 weeks;
 * brings the teacher and students together, face-to-face, for chunks of time (we call this contact time) in a compressed offering (e.g., week-end long offerings, one day per week consecutively for X weeks);
 * involves fewer contact hours (but not fewer learning opportunities or time on task); and
 * incorporates computer technology (e.g., wikis, learning management system, email, discussion boards) to enhance communication and learner/ing engagement opportunities before and after each contact period.

 