Email Sent To Faculty, Thursday March 3, 2011

(Sorry about the flat technical writing, but sometimes words must be transparent)

Dear Faculty,

We are entering into discussion with NILES about the difference in teaching loads from classroom to online teaching. We are focusing on the new Hybrid Course initiative that will see a proposed 150 Hybrid Courses running by the end of the next Academic Year. However, any online experience that you have had would be an asset to our research.

If you are teaching, or have taught or are writing a Hybrid Course, please take a moment to briefly answer the 4 questions below. A number will do.

1) The college gives us 6.51 complementary hours on a SWF to convert a course from 3 Teaching Contact Hours classroom teaching to 2 Teaching Contact Hours classroom plus 1 Teaching Contact Hour online teaching. If you didn?t get 6.51 complementary hours on a SWF to develop such a course, please let me know what you did receive.

2) Using a percentage average, how much more time do you spend on course preparation materials for an online (rather than classroom) Teaching Contact Hour? If you teach a fully online course, you will have to divide by 3.

3) Using a percentage average, how much more time do you spend on evaluating and responding to student work for an online (rather than classroom) Teaching Contact Hour? If you teach a fully online course, you will have to divide by 3.

4) Using a percentage average, how much more time do you spend on administrating an online (rather than classroom) Teaching Contact Hour? If you teach a fully online course, you will have to divide by 3.

Please be brief. For the purposes of this research, please don?t respond if you don?t have any online experience. However, as always, I am glad to receive any correspondence through the usual venues.

Please email your responses to our inbox.....

Thanks in advance.