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The College of Arts, Sciences, and Education is committed to providing our students with increased accessibility to quality online courses and online degree programs. The Board of Governors 2025 Strategic Plan for Online Education forecasts a rapid growth in online education needs across the State of Florida. As a result, the online course development incentive was established to support the expansion and growth of online course offerings in our college. (Last edit: March 2020)
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1. COURSE ELIGIBILITY
Please review the course eligibility information below before submitting this form.
(1.1) Eligible courses must be NEW to the online modality (Mode: I) and have no history of being offered Online/Online Live by any other instructor in the past. If you are unsure whether your proposed course has been offered online before, please email Wendy Sanchez, Director of Online Learning- CASE Dean's Office at wesanc@fiu.edu for confirmation.
(1.2) Eligible courses are usually associated with a fully online degree program and/or, due to high demand, will be offered online multiple times throughout the academic year (minimum of once per academic year).
(1.3) Courses that require minimal content development will not meet eligibility (e.g., internship, directed individual study, supervised research, graduate thesis, etc.).
(1.4) New online courses that are cross-listed with another course (shared content development) are not eligible for this development incentive.
(1.5) Experimental courses, those that are offered on a trial basis, often prior to submitting the course for permanent status, are not eligible.
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2. SCHEDULING EXPECTATIONS
After a proposal has been approved, the Dean’s office will verify that the course is scheduled in PantherSoft in the fully online modality as:
(2.1) Instruction Mode: I
(2.2) Location: 9002 (online) and/or 9007 (online live)
(2.3) Funding type must be either E&G (Tuition/DL fee assessed) or Self-Supporting/Market Rate
(2.4) Course must be listed as “active” and run an entire semester. If the course is canceled for any reason, the instructor will be eligible on the following semester that the course is successfully offered and development expectations have been met.
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3. ONLINE COURSE DEVELOPMENT EXPECTATIONS:
FIU Online will assign an Instructional Designer to assist with the development of the new online course and provide guidance on the Panther High Quality process. The Dean’s office will review the online course development at the end of the semester it was offered (after grades have posted) to confirm the following:
(3.1) Online course was taught a full semester (not cancelled)
(3.2) Online course development was completed using Panther High Quality standards.
(3.3) Course was designed to meet the Panther High Quality standards mandated for all new online courses (effective Summer 2020 per the SUS 2025 Strategic Plan for Online Education) and course has been submitted for final review to be awarded certification (after revisions, if needed, were completed).
If a course does not meet line item (3.3), the instructor will have one academic year to complete what is pending to be eligible for development incentive.
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4. DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE
(4.1) The online development incentive will be issued at the end of the semester that the course is offered online (must meet ALL the development requirements noted in Step 3).
(4.2) If the pass rate was lower than 70%, the Dean’s office will determine if the incentive should be fully processed or partially processed pending a redevelopment plan to improve the average pass rate (this will be evaluated on a one-on-one basis).
(4.3) The incentive amount awarded is as follows:
• 1 credit: $500
• 2 credits: $1000
• 3 or more credits: $1500
(4.4) Effective Summer 2020, all new online courses are required to be developed with the Panther High Quality standards from the start. Therefore, no additional compensation will be awarded after the new course is issued the Panther High Quality certification.
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Application
Instructors that are scheduled to teach an online course that meets the eligibility requirements noted above, may apply by clicking the "continue" button below. If you have any questions, please contact Wendy Sanchez, Director of Online Learning-CASE Dean's office at 305-348-9965 or via email: wesanc@fiu.edu.
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