Academics • Ensure a safe return to campus with community based-learning
GOALS
and adaptive face-to-face instruction. • Provide faculty and staff with the development, training and technology to adapt to the changing conditions caused by the virus and the directives of state and local authorities. • Promote safety and well-being among all students, faculty and staff by ensuring proper physical distancing, disinfection strategies and preventative measures.
We believe that face-to-face instruction is paramount for the student experience. In the spring, faculty will continue to provide face-to-face instruction along with virtual options as well. Faculty have prepared courses that provide a seamless experience in and out of the classroom. HYBRID COURSES
During the spring 2021 semester, all traditional courses are offered in a hybrid format. Hybrid refers to content both in MyFire and in physical classrooms. With hybrid course preparation, faculty are able to accommodate social distancing and also flex as CDC guidelines, campus conditions or social distancing protocols are relaxed or restricted. To reduce viral spread, professors using a hybrid course preparation are ensuring that social distancing practices are carried into the classroom environment. COURSE DELIVERY
To supplement face to face delivery, faculty are loading course content into the MyFire online learning platform. Course content might include pre-recorded video lectures, recorded class meetings, articles, assignments, or even Zoom sessions for live class meetings. Every class has a course shell in MyFire which is where students access content, submit tasks, take assessments, and see grade updates. CLASSROOM SETTING
In keeping with CDC recommendations, students are expected to wear masks in classrooms and practice social distancing. Our classrooms provide adequate space while also allowing students to interact with one another, the professors and the class content. While the number of people physically present during any classroom meeting will vary with updates to CDC recommendations for social distancing, live instruction, access to professors and connection with classmates won’t change. Physical presence in each classroom has been limited to 50 percent of that standard room capacity to enable social distancing. As CDC guidelines on social distancing are updated, the percentage of students able to be physically present in the same room could increase or decrease. There is signage in place to indicate the new occupancy numbers for each classroom.
If you have any COVID-19 questions, please email covid@seu.edu. 16
