Definitions of Delivery Methods

An In-person Class is where students are in the same physical location as the instructor.

A Synchronous Class focuses on concurrent, collective, and collaborative learning amongst students, requires regularly scheduled contact times between instructor and students, may be in-person or at a distance, and is listed in the quarterly class schedule.

An Asynchronous Class may be self-paced, individually or intermittently collaborative, requires that the content of the class be delivered using methods that do not rely on structured meeting times, and that no regularly scheduled contact times are listed in the quarterly class schedule.

A Hybrid Class is a class in which part of the contact time of a synchronous class is replaced by a required asynchronous component, thus reducing the amount of required scheduled contact time. Hybrid classes are typically 50% synchronous and the remainder is asynchronous although they may be more or less than 50% and the remainder of the content delivered asynchronously.