all such instances, such courses must match the total amount of work using the examples listed above, and the faculty member is required to keep records of the meeting times and student work assigned so that contact hours can be calculated. FIELD EXPERIENCE: Courses of study in which a faculty member regularly interacts with and directs student outcomes with periodic contact, but where the actual learning environment takes place off-campus at an approved site. The learning experience will typically involve a site supervisor or preceptor and directed activity/learning will occur outside of a lecture setting. Contact time and outside student work requirements must be established and documented and must match the total amount of work using the example above. The faculty member or program director responsible for the experience is required to keep records of amount of supervised work and the amount of outside work assigned so that contact hours can be calculated. ONLINE COURSES: Courses offered entirely online without any onsite face-to-face meetings. These courses have the same learning outcomes and substantive components of a standard lecture/seminar course with an alternate delivery method. Contact time is satisfied by several means which can include, but is not limited to, the following: (a) regular instruction or interaction with a faculty member once a week for each week the course runs. (b) Academic engagement through interactive tutorials, group discussions moderated by faculty, virtual study/project groups, engaging with class peers, and computer tutorials graded and reviewed by faculty. In all such instances, these courses must meet the total amount of instructional and student work time as the examples above, even if delivered online or asynchronously. HYBRID COURSES: Courses offered in a blended format with one or more onsite face-to-face class sessions and at least one or more online sessions, both containing direct interaction with a faculty member. Contact time is assessed using both onsite definitions (for the onsite portion) and online definitions as above (for the online portion). In all such instances, these courses must meet the total amount of instructional and student work time as the examples above, even if delivered online or asynchronously. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Determining Time on Task in Online Education (from New York State Education Department) – Time on task is the total learning time spent by a student in a college course, including instructional time as well as time spent studying and completing course assignments (e.g., reading, research, writing, individual, and group projects.) Regardless of the delivery method or the particular learning activities employed, the amount of learning time in any college course should meet the requirements of Commissioner’s Regulation Section 50.1 (o), a total of 45 hours for one semester credit (in conventional classroom education, this breaks down into 15 hours of instruction plus 30 hours of student work/study out of class.) “Instruction” is provided differently in online courses than in classroom-based courses. Despite the difference in methodology and activities, however, the total “learning time” online can usually be counted. Rather than try to distinguish between “in-class” and “outside-class” time for students, the faculty member developing and/or teaching the online course should calculate how much time a student doing satisfactory work would take to complete the work of the course, including the following: • Reading course presentations/ “lectures” • Reading other materials • Participation in online discussions • Doing research • Writing papers or other assignments • Completing all other assignments (e.g., projects) The total time spent on these tasks should be roughly equal to that spent on comparable tasks in a classroom-based course. Time spent downloading or uploading documents, troubleshooting technical problems, or in chat rooms (unless on course assignments such as group projects) should not be counted.
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