32.1

Credit courses offered by Brandon University are of two types: Regular Courses (classroom based) or Technologically Mediated Courses.

32.2

Technologically Mediated Courses include courses that are:

32.3

Developing an approved technologically mediated course is equal to one and one-half to two (1.5-2.0) times the number of student credit hours. The precise credit hour weighting shall be decided by mutual agreement between the member and the Dean/Director.

32.4 Teaching Workload

1. Teaching load credit for technologically mediated courses shall equal the student credit hour rating, with the exception of technologically mediated courses with fewer than three (3) students enrolled for which the teaching load credit shall be one-third (1/3) the student credit hour rating.
2. If the member elects to include students taught through technologically mediated modalities within a regular course, then teaching workload shall be assigned for the subset of such students at the rate of twenty percent (20%) of the course credit hours of the first student, fifteen percent (15%) for the second student, and ten percent (10%) for each subsequent student to a maximum of one hundred percent (100%) of the course credit hours. The teaching workload credit assigned shall be calculated using this formula and allocated in accordance with Article 9 except as modified or limited by this Article.

32.5

No member shall be required to teach technologically mediated courses without their consent. Where a member agrees to teach technologically mediated courses, these courses shall constitute part of their normal or overload teaching assignment, in accordance with Article 9, except as modified or limited by this Article.

32.6

Members assigned to teach technologically mediated courses shall be provided with the technological and human resources reasonably required to develop and to conduct the course. Members shall be provided with appropriate training in the use of required technology. Members shall be notified of the resources available to them, and any travel requirements associated with the course before their consent to teach a technologically mediated course is obtained. Once agreed to, no alteration may be made in the resources available or travel requirements for an assigned technologically mediated course without the consent of the member.

32.7

Instructional support (e.g. markers, clerical assistance) shall be made available for technologically mediated courses on the same basis as regular courses.

32.8

Technological support for students enrolled in technologically mediated courses shall be the responsibility of professional, technical, and support staff, not the instructor.

32.9

Technologically mediated courses shall not be offered by Brandon University unless a member (sessional, term, probationary, continuing, or tenured) has been assigned to teach it.

32.10

Members who are the creators of a technologically mediated course that involve the broadcast, transmission, retransmission, publication, recording, or storage of the contents of the technologically mediated course shall retain copyright under Article 21 regardless of the medium used to broadcast, transmit, retransmit, publish, record, or store the technologically mediated course.

32.11

As copyright holder, the member who creates a technologically mediated course retains exclusive rights to its alteration, revision, or amendment. No other changes may be made without the written consent of the copyright holder.

32.12

The Parties agree that academic freedom in teaching includes the freedom of members to select and use those teaching and support materials they believe to be appropriate, including the freedom to use or not use any specific technology.

32.13

With the exception of Campus Manitoba, Canadian Virtual University, and Inter-Universities North (or the successors of these organizations as they may be known from time to time), technologically mediated courses offered by any organization other than Brandon University shall not be delivered by Brandon University, where 

1. such course is equivalent to a course listed in the University Calendar;
2. the content of the course is currently taught by members;
3. members are qualified to deliver the course;
4. directly related positions have been declared redundant under the provisions of Article 16; or 
5. in the event of a labour dispute.

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