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I’ve been a professional IT trainer for 15 years, and in my experience, eleven hours of training is too much even for a single day, let alone for twelve weeks straight. I teach immersive, hands-on classes that last only 7.5 hours per day, and by the seventh hour, I can see the brains and attention span of the attendees shutting down.

At times, I’ve been asked to teach a four-day class in only three days with extended hours, and participants consistently say that they are less satisfied and learn fewer skills than when the same material is learned over four days.

In addition, a Dr. Pimsleur determined years ago that to really learn something, you must repeatedly review it at regular intervals, to commit it to your long term memory. If you’re spending 11 hours per day learning new things, that doesn’t leave much time and energy to review.