Distance Education Formats Clause Samples
Distance Education Formats. A. Telecourses are commercially prepared courses that SCCC has purchased and offer to enrolled students via video transmission. Such courses require an on-campus component which shall be taught by an SCCC faculty member. Five (5) campus meetings are required for each three credit hour telecourse offering; seven (7) for a three credit hour course with a lab component. For telecourses that are fewer or more than three credit hours, a proportional number of on-campus meetings will be required.
1. Assignments to telecourses shall be based on seniority.
2. Faculty members who teach telecourses shall be accessible to their telecourse students in between on-campus meetings, which may include e- mail, voice mail or telephonic communication or in-person consultations, to be determined by the individual faculty member.
3. Faculty members shall be compensated at the contractual credit hour rate for their rank per course for each telecourse taught.
B. Synchronous distance education courses are generally live interactive video transmissions to one or more instructional sites.
1. Initially two (2) remote sites shall be used for any one synchronous DE course.
2. Each site shall include appropriate support staff:
a. An audio-visual professional assistant shall be made available at each site for technical support at both the beginning and the end of each transmission and for assistance during the transmission.
b. The College shall provide other non-faculty staff assistance to distribute, collect and fax materials at remote sites and to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ tests/exams at the remote sites, as required by the instructor.
c. The College shall also provide other staff assistance as necessary for safety and security concerns at remote sites.
3. Faculty members who teach synchronous distance education courses shall be accessible to their students through e-mail, fax, voice mail or telephonic communication or through in person consultations, to be determined by the individual faculty member.
4. No synchronous DE course shall be taped without the faculty member's permission.
C. Asynchronous distance education courses are those that are not conducted in real time. The course content, assignments and all student/student or student/faculty interaction is conducted online via computer over the Internet.
1. Online courses are faculty developed.
2. Faculty who teach asynchronous distance education courses shall be accessible to their students through the various dial up modes of communication, such ...