Administrative
- Accessibility
- World Campus has an accessibility team that works with the students to make the appropriate accommodations. Should you have a student with a disability, they need to start the process for seeking accommodation. The University website on accessibility has a host of additional resources that are available to you.
- OL 1800: Accessibility Course is a professional development course available to learn more about accessibility.
- Conduct, Care, and Concern
- Course-related concerns can be submitted to:
- The Program Planning and Management Office does not resolve the issue without consultation with the academic partner and the student.
- For issues regarding personal safety, integrity issues and/or affirmative action issues, please contact the Office of Student Affairs.
- Copyright Permissions
- For RDC1 programs, contact your World Campus Instructional Designer.
- For RDC2 programs, contact your college’s design shop.
- Intellectual Property Policy
- Courseware
- Enrollment Management
- Daily Enrollment & Closed Course Reports: contact your WC Program Manager to be added to listserv
- Faculty Handbook Template
- Scroll down to “Faculty Manual for Online Teaching” to the editable Word document. This manual is intended to serve as a template for units across the University to adapt for their own use.
- Financial Aid
- Hiring
- Penn State policies relevant to faculty appointments
- Appointments Types
- Includes guidelines on supplemental appointments
- Affirmative Action in Employment at Penn State
- Background Checks
- Definition of Academic Ranks
- Includes information on the use of titles for fixed-term appointments
- Graduate faculty criteria: http://www.gradsch.psu.edu/index.cfm/policies/faculty/criteria/
- New, Regular Employee Forms to be filled out upon hire
- Post-retirement Appointments
- Recommended Procedure for Hiring New Faculty
- “Regular” and “Non-regular” University Employees -This policy is currently under revision.
- Rehire as Independent Contractor
- Services Matrix-Decision matrix for hiring course authors/instructors
- Types of Appointments
- Appointments Types
- Job Description Templates for lead faculty, course authors and course instructors
- Penn State policies relevant to faculty appointments
- Online learning governance committees
- These committees govern university policies and best practices for online programs.
- Online program proposal
- Teaching Assistants – while there are no policies directly related to the rules of teaching assistants in undergraduate course. For instruction in Graduate Level courses, the policy is linked here.
Below are sample guidelines for undergraduate courses from several academic units. - Mathematics Department Guidelines
- Women’s Studies
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Teaching Opportunities with World Campus
- University Policies
Pedagogical
- Benefits of Online Teaching
- Certificate for Online Teaching
- A professional development program to prepare for online teaching effectiveness.
- One semester to complete
- Grading policies 47-00, 48-00 and 49-00
- Library Research Guides
- Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is a process used by colleges and universities to evaluate learning acquired outside of the classroom for the purpose of assigning academic credit or advancing a student’s academic standing.
- Rubric Guidelines
- Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTE)
- Student Orientation Materials
- Syllabus Checklist
- Tools for Online Teaching
- Section 2 pages 13-21
- Transfer Credits
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- There is no standard “rule” for transfer credits in the World Campus. Each course is evaluated on an individual and course specific basis by the college.
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We are aware that policies and processes change often. If changes should be made to this site, please contact the page administrator.
Updated on 11-16-2021