I think when people hear, I am flexible with deadlines, they immediately go to thinking there's just no deadlines, right? It's just a free for all. So if I have clear structure and deadlines, that helps people understand what they need to do to help make their own time work out the way it should to get it done. And then the flexibility recognizes that we're all humans and like things happen to humans big and small and we need to have a little bit of grace to just allow that to work. That is such an important point. There's so many positives to it.
David Clark discusses arbitrary limits in our classes on episode 443 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am not deadline free, but I have gone to total flexibility for deadlines.
-David Clark
I am a big believer in structure with flexibility.
-David Clark
I have flexibility within my deadlines.
-David Clark
Humans work well with structure.
-David Clark