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Article-40

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AFT Contract 2011-2014

Article 40 (new)

 

Definitions

1. For the purpose of this Article, Distance Learning (DL) is defined as follows:

Distance learning is a formal mode of interaction which uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor and which supports regular and substantive interaction between the students and instructor, either synchronously or asynchronously.

2. Course development includes creating a new course or adapting an existing course to use distance learning as the primary delivery mode.

3. The same quality standards applied to face-to-face courses shall also apply to DL courses.

B. Colleges offering DL courses shall:

1. Follow agreed upon curricular development, quality standards and approval processes asdeveloped by the college academic senate in consultation with the administration.

2. Form a DL committee or its equivalent that will serve the function of communicating with and advising the college on its decision making regarding distance learning issues. It should report to the college’s Educational Planning Committee or its equivalent and should include equal representation of AFT and Academic Senate DL faculty, administrators, and information technology staff involved in DL course development and delivery. The college curriculum committee and the DL Committee or equivalent should address DL efficacy as it relates to the total instructional program. The DL Committee shall have the responsibility of determining proficiency in a CMS and shall serve as a resource to the college on distance learning issues. Making assignments and evaluating faculty remain the responsibility of the department chairs.

 

3. Provide, as necessary, ongoing training and technical and instructional support including technological assistance regarding the college’s course management system (CMS), services and equipment to assure successful delivery of the course in any DL mode. When temporary adjunct faculty are required to undertake additional DL training in the teaching and learning of a new DL platform in order to receive an assignment, the District will provide such training.

4. Plan DL course offerings in the same manner as regular college/department course offerings by using the departments schedule development process as carried out by the department chair in conjunction with the administration

5. Ensure that faculty who are preparing to teach DL courses at the college for the first time demonstrate proficiency in DL instructional delivery methods. Proficiency in DL shall be determined by a method formulated by the college DL Committee Faculty may use training hours as part of their Professional Development (flex) obligation.

a.  No faculty member may be assigned a DL course until proficiency requirements set by the college DL Committee are met.

b.  The college DL Committee must determine CMS proficiency through training taken prior to the offer of any DL assignment.

c.  Proficiency gained in the CMS at any District college is portable to any other District college which uses the same CMS.

6. Evaluate DL instructors as specified in Articles 19 and 42 and Appendix C.

 

4. Assignment to DL classes shall be voluntary.

 

5. The DL faculty member may meet his or her DL class office hour obligation in part or whole by internet consultation.

6. Any faculty member who is assigned a DL class as an extra or adjunct assignment shall be assigned in seniority order as described in Article 16, except that the DL proficiency requirement in section B.3 above shall also be met. To assure that both DL proficiency and adjunct seniority requirements are met, faculty DL proficiency shall be noted on all seniority lists. Only instructors with such notation shall be offered DL classes. If the faculty member so designated declines the DL assignment, that decline is counted as a refusal for the purposes of calculating seniority as described in Article 16. Should a faculty member no longer desire to teach DL classes, he/she may request in writing that such notation be removed from the seniority list. The request to change one’s DL designation will be effective the next term and declining a DL assignment in the next and subsequent terms will not be counted as a refusal.

The DL designation can be reinstated by written request of the faculty member, effective the next term.

7. Experienced DL instructors selected to mentor or train others may be compensated at the non-teaching hourly rate.

D. Instructional Television

1. The assignment of faculty to Instructional Television courses shall be considered 0.4 FTE for the fall and spring semesters and 1 FTE in any intersession.

2.  Courses with fewer than 80 enrollments as of the close of the tenth instructional day of the semester in which the course appears on TV may be cancelled and the teaching assignment terminated. The Instructor shall be reassigned if regular or contract status is held.

3. In the event an ITV course official enrollment exceeds 240 students, a second section shall be created.

4. All ITV assignments shall first be offered to regular faculty.

5. If regular faculty members are not available to accept ITV assignments, assignments may be offered to temporary adjunct faculty as ITV instructors in accordance with the District’s rules.

6. The ITV evaluation process shall parallel the process for part-time instructors with the director of ITV acting as the department chair.

7. District and AFT approved discipline-specific ITV faculty selection rosters may be used to select its temporary adjunct ITV faculty in lieu of conducting a standard selection process. The ITV program director, the relevant discipline/department chair(s) and the appropriate vice president must all agree on this alternate selection procedure, which shall be deemed to comply with Board Rule, Chapter X, Article III, section 10304.2 and any relevant concomitant

local processes.

 

 

 

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