TELECOURSE FACULTY RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROCEDURES

Responsibilities

1. All telecourse faculty are required to participate in pedagogical and technical training to better serve telecourse students.
2. Faculty members are required to publish electronic syllabi and to establish Web-presence as a platform for related course-work and for using various electronic tools (e-mail, bulletin boards, chatroom, the Internet, etc.) to enhance communications with students.
3. Faculty members me required to adhere to the "Principles of Good Practice in Distance Learning" as adopted by the Middle State Association of Colleges and Schools (February 1997).
4. In addition to the required training, new telecourse faculty members are required to view the course preview tapes, and to customize learning materials prior to the beginning of the semester.
5. Faculty members are required to attend the "Telecourse Faculty Orientation Meeting" which is scheduled prior to the beginning of each semester.
   
   Work-load
6. Upon approval of the Academic Division Dean, telecourses may be included in the full- time faculty load. Ordinarily, no more than one telecourse should be included in a load in a given semester, however, exceptions may occur when the Academic Division Dean is assured-that the quality of instruction and the faculty's availability to the student will not suffer.
7. Telecourses with an enrollment of at least 15 students will be considered as full TLH and, where not counted in load, will be paid at the full credit hour rate for adjuncts and overload assignments.
8. If a telecourse has an enrollment of fewer than 15 students, there will be three options
   • Count it as a fractional load (assigned or banked toward future load).
   • Pay the teaching faculty a reduced rate of overload, or
   • Combine the under-enrolled telecourse with an on-campus section of the same course, and consider faculty workload/compensation based on the format attended by the majority of students. Selection of an appropriate option is to be worked out between the teaching faculty and the Academic Division Dean.
9. The maximum number of students in a telecourse will not exceed thirty five students.