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Unfortunately, I cannot say much about Linked Courses since I did not take this course as that way. However the idea seems very good to me for the following reasons:
1) You come to campus 1 time instead of 2
2) You stay 4 hours instead of 6
3) You earn 6 credits
4) The courses are related. So, your brain focuses more or less on the same topics. It is not like taking Statistical Analysis and Web Development class at the same semester where the contents are totally different.
5) It encourages faculty collaboration. Most of the time faculty from different program areas don't interact with each other.
6) The same goes for the students as well. When students spend 4 hours together, a better collaboration will hopefully occur unless there is a problem within the small groups of the Pop Culture or the Literature class.

I'm from the second language program area and I really enjoyed creating a digital story based on a topic from my content area. I can't say the project improved my knowledge about the topic because I did a personal narrative. However, the project gave me lots of ideas and courage to use digital storytelling in my own teaching of foreign languages both to teach content and to assess students.

If other linked courses were offered, I'd be very interested in taking them but I am at the point where I should stop taking classes and focus on my candidacy paper and the rest!

I have taken a couple online content courses which I enjoyed and found the courses to be as good as face to face ones. However, I don't like the idea of having the digital storytelling portion of the course online because I know myself. When it comes to technology, I need to see the instructor showing and explaining the steps. If I can't understand something, it would be hard for me to form those questions because I'd fear I'd use wrong terminology or can't explain my question and make a ridicule of myself.