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Office of Online Education Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost University of Nevada, Las Vegas While the overall time to completion is typically the same for programs that use traditional versus alternative academic calendars, the student experience can be different. In a master’s program that uses a traditional calendar, full-time students often take three courses over a 15-week semester, which means they must complete readings and assignments for three courses concurrently. Programs that use five-week terms compress 15-weeks of learning into five weeks, allowing students to focus on one course at a time while completing three courses sequentially in the span of a traditional 15-week semester. The model’s specificity to higher education contributes to research in a context still underdeveloped, i.e., targeted online learning strategies in a SIDS setting. The online format allows a dynamic interaction between the instructor and students and among the students themselv