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Agreement to Author and/or Teach a Course in Carolina Courses Online
The purpose of this agreement is to detail the arrangements between NAME and the Friday Center for Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the authoring and teaching of COURSE NUMBER, COURSE NAME in the Friday Center’s Carolina Courses Online (CCO) program. It is expected that as a part of fulfilling this contract, course authors and instructors will become familiar with Friday Center materials on the special nature of developing and teaching courses that are offered online.
Author’s Responsibilities
1. Design and Create Course Materials. These materials include:
Course Web Pages
Your course must be equivalent in scope, content, and quality to its classroom counterpart. You will work with the instructional design staff of the Friday Center’s Communication and Instructional Design unit in developing the course.
Examinations and/or Assignments
All examinations and assignments should reflect the course goals and be consistent with instructions given to your students in the course materials.
2. Submit First Draft to Department Chair for Approval. The chair can email his/her approval to the Friday Center.
3. Submit the Approved First Draft to the Friday Center
You are to submit the course materials to the Friday Center by DATE for a FALL, SPRING, or SUMMER offering. Please include ISBN numbers for all textbooks students will need to purchase for the course. If you cannot meet this deadline, please contact Credit Programs at least one month prior to the deadline. The materials must be presented in electronic format. Except to the extent that you otherwise notify the Friday Center in writing when submitting the course materials, all contents of the course materials will be your original work. If you wish to use copyrighted materials owned by another person or entity, you must provide written permission from that person or entity.
4. Review and Proof Final Draft
You are responsible for proofing your course pages and approving them prior to their final acceptance.
5. Departmental Review of Web Pages
You are responsible for securing written approval from your department chair.
Copyright and Ownership
In accordance with the Copyright Policy of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (effective date August 1, 2001), development of the course Web pages, exclusive of textbook materials (online or otherwise) is considered a “Directed Work.” The Copyright Policy States that “The University shall own copyright in Directed Works. Where practicable in the estimation of the creator’s chair, and subject to any additional terms or limitations made necessary by University licensing agreements, the creator shall be granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to the work for the creator’s own educational or research use.” The Copyright Policy can be reviewed at http://www.unc.edu/campus/policies/copyright policy 00008319.pdf.
Semester-to-Semester Revisions
You will update links to external Web sites and revise course schedules (as well as make any other changes you find necessary based on teaching the course) before each new term according to the schedule provided by Credit Programs. For more substantive revisions, contact the Program Development Specialist well in advance. Compensation will depend on the extent of the revision.
Initial Instruction
You will be the instructor of record starting the first offering of the course. After that, your department should plan to offer the course for at least two additional semesters, not necessarily consecutive. Designation of the instructor of record is the responsibility of the department. While the department has the discretion to appoint a qualified individual who is not affiliated with the University, the instructor will normally have current affiliation with the University.
Instructor Responsibilities
1. Respond to student questions and inquiries in a prompt and encouraging manner, ideally within two to three days.
2. Provide encouragement to the students to remain active in the course, to submit assignments regularly, and to ask questions whenever necessary.
3. Facilitate and monitor discussion forums in an active and ongoing way. This is a critical part of an instructor’s “presence” in an online course.
4. Evaluate and provide written feedback on all student assignments, quizzes, and exams within a week after receiving them.
5. Monitor, record, and maintain records on each student.
6. Report final grades within 72 hours after the final exam, using the official “Class Roll and Grade Report” form that Credit Programs will send to you.
7. Revise the course before each new semester (see “Semester-to-Semester Revisions” above).
8. Ensure compliance with departmental standards for course content, course requirements, examinations, grading, and course evaluation and University standards on academic integrity. This includes keeping course materials current. Credit Programs will inform you when new editions of textbooks are being published so that you can revise the course to coordinate with the most current texts.
9. Inform Credit Programs when situations occur that temporarily prevent you from fulfilling your instructional duties, such as vacations, conferences, or illness.
Payment
Your payment for developing the course will be $4000. This payment will be authorized as a single sum when you submit the entire course to our instructional design staff.
Your payment for revising and teaching the course will be $5900 or $6150 per term. The minimum enrollment needed to offer the course is six students by noon on the third day of class. If five or fewer students enroll, the course will be cancelled unless there is a compelling reason to offer it. In summer, if a class has three or fewer students by 5:00 on the first day of classes, it will be cancelled. If we can, we will pay you through your regular UNC payroll. If that isn’t possible, you’ll get a lump sum payment in the middle of the semester and one when the course is over.
Credit Programs Responsibilities
1. Provide timely information and materials you need to author and/or teach the course.
2. Provide updates on changes in administrative processes that affect you or your course.
3. Make payment to you for teaching and revising your course as outlined this Course Authoring and Teaching Agreement.
4. Evaluate your performance by reviewing student evaluations and course Web sites. Please help us in this process by encouraging your students to complete and submit the course evaluation form.
Termination of Assignment
This agreement remains in effect until terminated by you, your department, or Credit Programs. In order to assure the quality of our offerings, we must stipulate that repeated failure to fulfill the duties described in this contract constitutes grounds for terminating the contract.
Both you and Credit Programs have the right to terminate this assignment by providing written notification to the other party no less than 60 days prior to termination date. Your assignment will be terminated if the academic department awarding credit discontinues its approval of the offering or rescinds its approval of you as an instructor.
If you are presently on payroll at UNC and you leave UNC while still working for the Friday Center, please notify us immediately so that we can change your Friday Center payroll status and pay you in a timely manner when your work is complete. If you do not notify us, there could be delay in processing your check and getting your payments to you.
Signatures below by their authorized representative(s) signify acceptance of the terms indicated in the above agreement.
Author______Date______
Department Chair______Date______
The Friday Center Date______
Associate Director, Credit Programs
The Friday Center ______Date______
Program Development Specialist, Credit Programs