Welcome and Introduction Overview
Description
The San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD) College of San Mateo (CSM) Faculty Handbook for Online and Hybrid Instruction is a supplemental guide to the CSM faculty handbook. This handbook is designed to provide additional information to support online teaching and learning on the CSM campus and to describe, in detail, the SMCCCD and CSM Administrative Procedures for Distance Education.
We have organized this handbook as online pages in Canvas, to make it easier for you to refer back and access the information that is most important for you, in a way that is easy to navigate. This format allows the CSM DE Team to supplement and revise these materials as policies and procedures develop and change. The handbook has been developed based on the recommendations of the CSM Distance Education Advisory Committee (DEAC) and Academic Senate.
Online courses and instructors are subject to standards, regulations, and criteria which are in addition to the established standards and practices for on-campus, face-to-face (F2F) courses. We want you and your students to have success online, and hope this handbook will be an excellent resource, wherever you are in the process of teaching online.
Handbook Goals
- Define faculty role in online course development and course approval, the assignment of instructors to online and partially online courses, and how courses offered in any online modality are reviewed to ensure quality and conformity with institutional practices and procedures.
- Provide technical and pedagogical support and resources to faculty teaching online and partially online courses, whether asynchronous or synchronously.
- Furnish information and resources we have available for faculty training for online and partially online course delivery methods.
- Inform faculty about the policies and procedures that relate to distance education courses.
- Define current best practices in distance education and provide you with ideas on how you can incorporate these practices into your online course design and delivery.
- Offer resources for ongoing faculty professional development.
Adapted from the Pasadena City College Distance Education Handbook Links to an external site.
Special Acknowledgements
This College of San Mateo Faculty Handbook for Online and Partially Online Teaching was developed together with the help of the CSM Distance Education Advisory Committee (DEAC), the academic policies specified by the Academic Senate, and the work of the CSM Distance Education Team of Instructional Technologists, Instructional Designers, and Distance Education Coordinator.