Contact Hours
Previously, contact hours were met through a combination of traditional
lecture-style class time, group field projects completed synchronously
during scheduled class periods, and solo field projects completed
asynchronously. Under remote instruction, contact hours were shifted to
a combination of synchronous Zoom lectures to cover the week’s reading
from the California Naturalist Handbook and set up the weekly activity,
and asynchronous individual efforts towards completion of the ‘group’
field project and solo field projects by students separately. See the
Participatory Science Project section for details on how the field
projects were converted to remote instruction. Zoom lectures were
recorded and posted to the course Learning Management System (LMS, in
this case Canvas) for student reference. Course points were awarded for
attendance; however students who could not attend in the moment could
make up these points. Learning objectives for each lecture were
rephrased as questions and a student who missed a lecture could provide
written responses to the questions in order to receive ‘attendance’
points for that lecture. This make-up assignment was used only once in
the quarter.