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Pierce will offer dual delivery classes. Students who sign up for these classes can choose to either attend class in person or only attend class remotely.

Regardless of how students attend these classes, the instructor will be the same and will teach both groups at the same time. There will be two sections, but they will be combined into one class.

Pierce Chapter President of the Los Angeles College Faculty Guild Brian Walsh explained that dual delivery is designed to allow professors to teach more students, despite being limited to having only 28 students physically in a classroom.

“We have the OWLs coming to every classroom,” Walsh said, regarding a camera that follows the teacher around the classroom.

“What we want to do is open the opportunity for classroom faculty to take advantage of this. The in-person class cap is 28, but if you use this technology, you can have up to 40 students—28 in person and the rest remote.”

Walsh said it is up to the faculty member who teaches a dual delivery class to decide on whether or not a student from the remote section can attend the in-person section. Faculty members are also not compelled to record classes, but they may choose to do so.

Technology librarian Clay Gediman discussed how testing and exams will work in dual delivery classes.

“If the instructor wants to have all in person exams, the meeting dates would probably have to be put in the notes in the schedule to let the students know ahead of time that they will be obligated to come into class to take those tests at those times,” Gediman said.

“It’s just these little things that are going to be tough to remember as we kind of prepare ourselves and make sure we try to catch as many as we can before it happens.”

Gediman also explained the differences between dual delivery classes and HyFlex classes. Unlike dual delivery classes, HyFlex classes allow students to come to class in person or attend remotely based on their preferences on any given day. Students who sign up for the remote section of a dual delivery class will need their instructor’s permission to attend the in person section of that class. However, both dual delivery and HyFlex classes use the same technology.

Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs Donna-Mae Villanueva said that Pierce is still working on how to effectively communicate to students what these classes entail.

“I know that there’s been a group that’s been putting together language that will be included so that students will know that these classes are combined, so they can choose either to be on the online version or face to face version,” Villanueva said. p.m.: 7 p.m. classes continued

Instructors who want to teach dual delivery classes will have to go through training. According to Distance Education Coordinator Wendy Bass, training will occur in person and remotely during Pierce’s winter session.

Walsh said that instructors who teach these classes will receive stipends. Pierce’s goal is to have these stipends paid by the end of March.

Pierce is the only college offering dual delivery classes in the LACCD, according to Walsh. Some departments like anthropology and media arts have already started practicing using dual delivery in the classroom.

Because of the flexibility of dual delivery classes, Pierce hopes to see improvements in its enrollment.

“We have new technology stipends and it lets the school find a new way using technology to address the enrollment problem,” Walsh said.

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