Alternate Delivery Program

DEFINITION OF COURSE DELIVERY FORMATS

The following definitions are offered as a guide for redesigning a course's delivery format:

Face-to-Face: A "traditional" class that conducts all of its meetings or activities during a fixed date, time and location. The pedagogical focus is usually instructor led.

Web Enhanced or Online Supported: A class that makes use of the Web to enhance or supplement its face-to-face meetings. Typically Web use is asynchronous (not real-time). The pedagogical focus is still typically instructor led, but students may do more self-paced learning (e.g., use of links, PowerPoints, courseware, announcements, discussion boards, etc.).

ALTERNATE DELIVERY FORMATS (THE FOCUS OF THIS PROGRAM):

Hybrid (part online, part face-to-face): A class that replaces one or more of its weekly, face-to-face sessions with online activities that may or may not occur during a fixed date or time. The pedagogical focus shifts more responsibility to students, who do work online, either in self-paced activities (e.g., use of courseware for announcements, quizzes, asynchronous discussion boards) or small groups (e.g., discussions, chats/forums, projects/assignments).

Online: A class that only meets online, typically in an asynchronous mode (not in real time). The pedagogical focus is more on self-paced student learning using many or all of the hybrid activities above. Since the format is totally online, the student shoulders most of the responsibility for learning, with the instructor serving more as a faciliator or guide.