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Credit Hour Information

ON-CAMPUS, HYBRID, AND ONLINE COURSE CREDIT HOUR ASSIGNMENT

The 黄瓜精品’s Colleges of Business, Health Professions, and Occupational Professions operate on a quarter system. Program completion times in these colleges are based on the accepted practices in higher education of two nine-month academic years for an associate degree and four nine-month academic years for a bachelor’s degree. The College of Applied Technologies operates in six-week sessions in which class times are intensive to allow for the balance of lecture and hands-on activities as dictated by the industry it serves. Completion times for all programs in the College of Applied Technologies are listed in months, which better reflect the intense nature of the training and allow for transparency in comparing other programs in the College of Applied Technologies as well as applied technology programs from other similar institutions.

Policy

It is the policy of the 黄瓜精品 to govern the credit hours assigned to on-campus, hybrid, or online courses. Courses will be assigned credit hours based on the guidelines presented below.

Definitions

Federal Credit Hour: A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than:

• one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and an average of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester or trimester hour of credit, or ten to twelve weeks for one quarter hour of credit, or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time; or
• at least an equivalent amount of work as required in paragraph (1) of this definition for other activities as established by an institution, including laboratory work, internships, practica, studio work, and other academic work leading toward to the award of credit 34CFR 600.2 (11/1/2010)

On-Campus Course: A course that is delivered in a physical classroom (face-to-face) and meets regularly for the purpose of instruction. On-campus courses follow the guidelines for course meetings as established by the Federal Credit Hour definition.

Hybrid Course: A course that is delivered in a physical classroom (face-to-face) and in the institution supported course management system. Hybrid courses have a portion of the content delivered in the institution supported course management system. This may be any percentage of time that substitutes online time for seat time.

Online Course: A course that is delivered exclusively in the institution’s supported course management system where students access instructions, instructor’s office hours, all course materials (lectures, assignments, resources, etc.) and communicate via email, discussion forums, and/or chats with the instructor and other students. Online classes have 100% of the content delivered through the institution supported course management system.

Assigning Credits to Courses in Hybrid or Online Formats

For every hour of credit, students must engage in a minimum of 8.5 hours of instructional time. Over the course of a 10-week quarter, this equates to 50 minutes of instructional time per week per credit. Online and hybrid courses should be assigned credit hours based on a similar understanding, though the activities for electronic instructional time will be different from traditional face-to-face instruction.

• Instructional time will include asynchronous or synchronous learning where students are gaining new information and/or interacting with the Instructional time may include but is not limited to the following:
  • Posted modules or lessons written or procured by the instructor
  • Chat room discussions with the instructor and/or other students
  • Bulletin board discussions with the instructor and/or other students
  • Email discussions with instructor and/or other students
  • Other activities that include instructor interaction and involvement

• Instructional time will include asynchronous or synchronous learning where students are gaining new information and/or interacting with the Instructional time may include but is not limited to the following:
  • Writing papers
  • Reading articles or text
  • Small group work
  • Visiting other websites
  • Presentations
  • Completing assignments from the textbook
  • Other activities that do not include direct instructor interaction and involvement