Department Head
College Curriculum Committee
DGS (for graduate courses in a department with a DGS)
Dean (or college designee)
UMD Academic Affairs
Effective Term
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Effective for courses to be taught Spring 2018 (for NEW courses and any changes to existing courses)
Curriculum guidelines permit programs to define the delivery mode(s) approved for a course as follows:
- Classroom (100% face-to-face)
- Partially online (4 or more face-to-face class periods per term)
- Primarily online (1-3 defined face-to-face meeting dates per term)
- Online (no face-to-face meetings)
This addendum is for courses designatedwith any online component. If you have additional questions, please refer to ITSS Resources for Faculty and Staff.
Please comment on the following online course attributes:
1. How does the technology you will use in the online course support the achievement of learning outcomes and the delivery of course content? Please provide a couple of examples. Here are someITSS resources for faculty and staff.2. Please describe some of the ways the courseensures permissions (such as creative commons, copyright, fair use, library licensed content, public domain, etc.) are in place for appropriate use of online course materials. For additional help in this area, please refer to this link: Acceptable use of online resources.
3. Please describe how all online students, regardless of location, will be able to receive information about their access to library resources to support their research and learning, and librarians who can assist them.Here are some Library Resources (An example might be a resource link within your syllabus).
4. It will be important for the online course to include a syllabus outlining technical and proctoring requirements (if applicable). Briefly, please explain how the technical and proctoring requirements are met for the exams planned in the course(only if applicable). Syllabus Policy
5. Describe how links or explanations of technical support will be made available in the course.(An example of this might be a link from the electronic syllabus to an information webpage you’ve created, or a simple explanation within the course syllabus).
6. In online courses it is important to communicate rules or standards for appropriate online student behavior. How will those rules/standards be provided to studentsand monitored within the online course?
Example of guidelines.
Academic Integrity
(An example of this might be a link to an information page describing your expectations for appropriate online behavior, or an explanation within your syllabus).
7. How will students contact the instructor for course-related assistance?
Syllabus Policy
(An example of this might be online office hours, or instructor availability by phone or skype during certain times).
8. Given the increasing requirements for accommodations for students with disabilities, please describe your reasonable accommodations forstudents with disabilities who are taking this online (or primarily online) course. Please refer to this link for help, if needed: Resources for accessibility at UMD
9. It is fair to assume most students have more experience with traditional face-to-face classroom instruction than with online instruction. What information might the course provide students to help them understand and overcome important differences?For example, guidelines for time management, and/or expectations about time to complete work.Resource: Online Discussion Guidelines
Attributes listed here are based on Online Learning Consortium’s (OLC) Quality Scorecard For The Administration of Online Programs 2014 Criteria for Excellence©
Approved by the Campus Curriculum Subcommittee April 21, 2016
Amended by Academic Affairs May 2017
The following policy is taken from Academic Affair’s Credit Standards for Instruction and Student Work Effective:September 1, 2011Last Updated:Approved by EPC on December 15, 2010Approved by Campus Assembly April 12, 2011
The pedagogy should be appropriate for the delivery mode selected for the section of a course.
3. Forclassroomdelivery mode (assuming a 15-week semester)
- For lecture and discussion course components, 750 minutes will be scheduled, according to classroom scheduling guidelines, per credit hour. This typically is scheduled in fifteen (15) 50-minute periods. The course will be designed and expectations established so that theaveragestudent will need to study and/or engage in out of class learning activities an average of two hours outside of class for every hour in the classroom in order to achieve satisfactory performance.
- Study and/or engage in out of class learning activities include but are not limited to: completing online modules, reading text, viewing recorded lectures, completing assignments, synchronous or asynchronous discussion with the instructor or other students, taking exams, group projects, or service learning.
- For course components such as laboratory, rehearsal and studio, a minimum of fifteen (15) 50-minute periods will be scheduled, according to classroom scheduling guidelines, per credit hour. This component will be designed and expectations established so that theaveragestudent will need to devote an average of three hours total per credit hour to a combination of scheduled time and time to study and/or engage in learning activities outside of the scheduled time in order to achieve satisfactory performance.
4. Forpartially onlinedelivery mode, the course will be designed to utilize both classroom and online delivery so that the combination requires the student to spend an average of 150 minutes per week per credit.
5. Forprimarily online or onlinedelivery modes, the course will be designed and expectations established so that in order to achieve satisfactory performance, theaveragestudent will need to spend an average of 150 minutes per week per credit for a 15 week-semester or 45 hours per credit per course engaged with the course material in a combination of ways (see 3b above). Completion of laboratory experiences conducted using either digital technology or purchased supplemental materials will require additional time and should be designed with expectations that the time required is comparable to completion of similar activity in a laboratory space.
Updated December 20, 2016
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