AGREEMENT – Faculty Development of New Online/Hybrid Courses

Timeline for courses to be developed and delivered

Course: / Semester to be offered:
Instructor:

This document is designed to communicate a succinct framework for course development and procedural steps that must occur for your online course to “go live” (i.e. be released on the web by our campus). Experienced online faculty who are delivering subsequent courses do not need to attend the development workshops, but should attend at least two professional development sessions for online teaching during the academic year, which could include workshops 1 through 5 or any brown-bag sessions.

__February:

  • Initial group meeting with the Multi-Media Instructional Designer (MID) to discuss online policies/practices before training

__March:

  • Meet individually with the MID to conceptualize course (approx. 2 hrs)

__April:

  • Training #1 – Introduction to Online Learning
  • Training #2 – Presenting Content in Your Online Course
  • Create Course information documents (i.e. syllabus and documents specific to online courses) and an Icebreaker Module to begin your course.
  • As you develop content, post it regularly so MID can review

__June:

  • Training #3 – Integrating Interaction in Your Online Course
  • Training #4 – Authentic Assessment Online
  • Develop course content in Learning Modules.
  • Keep MID up-to-date on your progress, posting new content regularly

__August:

  • Post all course materials to be reviewed by MID
  • Training #5 – Teaching and Managing Your Online Course
  • Course must complete by training session #5 (1st draft of the entire course.)
  • MID starts full course review and makes final revision recommendations
  • One week before Fall semester, course opens for Icebreaker/Orientation
  • Course content and graded learning activities begin on Fall semester starting day

Throughout the semester:

  • Consult MID whenever needed throughout the semester
  • Attend training workshop for first time online faculty.

Agreement – Faculty Development of New SLN Courses

Policies Regarding Development of Distance Learning Courses

(a) A Faculty Member who agrees to teach a distance learning course agrees to participate in course developing training, including technology training and curriculum design workshops and seminars. The College will provide reimbursement for any direct cost of training.

(b)The Faculty Member agrees to conduct course evaluations at the end of each semester and to participate in any research or assessment of distance learning outcomes.

(c)A Faculty Member will be compensated in the following ways for development and teaching of online or hybrid courses:

i.The Faculty Member will receive a course load reduction or overload pay equal to the number of credits of the new course being developed. No additional compensation will be paid for revising a course or offering the course in subsequent semesters.

ii. A $375 lump sumstipend is provided to online facultyeach semester (Fall or Spring) or academic session (Winter or Summer) they teach one or more online courses. Faculty members are responsiblefor purchasing and maintaining their own computer, operating system, virus protection, system upgrades and internet service. Additional course-specific softwarewill be purchased by CCC foran online faculty member through the same process followed foron-campus instructors. Online faculty are provided the same technical support provided to on-campus instructors, including assistance from an instructional designer, the faculty help desk, media support, and NIS.

(d)Compensation for teaching of the online or hybrid course will be equal to the Faculty Member’s regular teaching salary and will be calculated as part of the faculty member’s load or overload.

(e)If a newly-developed course is cancelled by the College before it is taught, the Faculty member will still be compensated for developing the course. When the Faculty Member offers the course in a subsequent semester, it is understood that no further compensation for development will be paid.

(f)On-campus office hours may be reduced when a Faculty Member teaches asynchronous or hybrid courses. The reduction will be based on the number of on-campus /online credits being taught. For example, a Faculty member teaching four courses on campus and one course online would have the required on-campus office hours reduced from 5 to 4.

When courses are not developed according to the above timeline, or do not meet the quality standards of Clinton Community College for course design, the Coordinator of Online Learning will inform the appropriate Department Chair. If the issues are not resolved in a timely manner by the faculty member, a decision on whether or not to run the course will then be made in consultation with the VPAA.

Development pay or load reduction requested for: Fall __ Spring __ Summer __

Faculty Signature: ______

Department Chair: ______

Online Learning Coordinator: ______

Academic VP: ______

Rev. 01/2010