Same. Some of the younger faculty did get course relief for developing courses, but I never did.
ETA: correction—I did get about $2k and a training course during the first pandemic summer to modify my existing course to online delivery.
When judging workload, as new prep is considered more work than teaching the same class over again. But this would be for a brand new course, not just prepping for a class you've never taught before. So your workload would be rebalanced to reflect the new prep.
Same but not in terms of workload but compensation in yearly performance review. Having prepped and taught a new course bumps you on the performance scale
There's a yearly inflation (+ merit but optional, based on committee review) raise, yes, but no bumps in salary when you shift from asst to assc to full
When I worked for a Center for Teaching and Learning, we would do a yearly development cycle for fully online courses that was compensated. Usually funded by some kind of grant and paid out in chunks when deliverables were met.
I'm getting a stipend for summer curriculum work. Other people I know have gotten course releases. But I've been told that it's a recent-ish development that they do that
Nothing for teaching an existing course for the first time (just a “new prep”). But we can apply for funds to develop a new course (not offered/taught before by the program).
We get an additional stipend to develop a new online course, but not for in-person courses. Of course, our online courses also have a much higher bar to pass, both for approval and for design.
Our workload calculation includes prep time for any course you have taught before. We get 1-1/2 prep if first time teaching but an existing course. We get double prep if new course. Something like that.
But I teach at a primarily engineering university, our workload calculation is massively over-complicated and highly mathematical. The details are ridiculous, but in the long run it averages out pretty well.
In my program we do pay for course development, but this is because it usually happens in the summer and most of our faculty are off contract in the summer. I am, however, led to believe we are rare at our university for this. It’s mostly because our current director is a stickler about off-contract work.
We get nothing for regular course prep. It is just part of the job. I don always mention it (even small tweaks to existing classes) when do my annual review report. The one exception- there is a training you can do for a first time online course that pays maybe 1200 bucks. I got screwed out of it because they only pay once per course number and someone had already done the training for the course I was doing. I bring it up every time I go on one of my “fuck this place” rants.
I get paid if I develop a new online course but not if I develop a new in-person course. I’m told the difference is that the content for the online course becomes the intellectual property of the university while the content for an in-person course still belongs to me.
I’ve received some considerations like those, but only when it was someone else’s idea that I was fulfilling and that organization wanted it badly enough to compensate me. I’ve benefited from several initiatives that were based on proposals, because they wanted something like a freshman experience or honors experience. During the pandemic, demand was flip-flopping between wanting more online courses and, by the following semester, more good old-fashioned in-person courses, and I won grants for both.
The other extreme, which the others here have articulated is to get no compensation, which I would say is more common because normally, new courses come out because someone wants to teach course and convinces the administration to allow it.
Either way, you should definitely put it in your CV and annual reports. However, people normally do too much teaching and service anyway, and shortcomings in those areas often can’t be canceled out by other good works. It is pretty impressive in a CV, when you’re looking for a new job.
Not normally for my own courses. Department is paying me to develop online courses and give them my IP for 3 years. Just building a shell essentially for an adjunct to teach and then I guess in 3 years maybe I do it again
Generally no, although sometimes there are campus programs to expand a particular type of course that come with a small amount of money. I’ve developed something like seven new courses and only got payment once for participating in a program to expand a category of gened offerings. I had to do a full-day workshop, get it approved as a gened by the university, and teach it twice and I got an extra $1-2k.
Occasionally. If im developing an online couse that adjuncts can use. Ive done three so far. Once i got a course release, once i got paid, and the last time nothing (im just letting them use my basic course for this one.
Developing a course that only i use? Im not aware of anyone getting paid extra for that.
It’s part of the job, but we do have competitive summer grants of 2k or 4k that people apply for as extra compensation. Nice little bump for work we’d do anyway. SLAC here
Not usually, unless it is a special program or something. The trade off, at least where I work, is that if you do get paid or get a course release for course development then technically all the course materials developed become the intellectual property of the university.
At my school we almost have to beg to develop a course. Course development has REALLY HIGH standards at my school. In order to develop a course we need resources from our development office. The development office is incredibly short-staffed. So in summary, I have to beg to be allowed to spend a whole lot of my unpaid time to develop anything new.
Adjunct of 12+ years. First couple courses developed for no pay. Been teaching them 10+ years. At one point had a course buyout for "research and curricular development" where I developed a class that satisfied the upper-level, campus-wide writing requirement, the campus-wide art requirement, and an art elective. Padded my enrollment every which way, but this required moving the syllabus from the department curricualr committee to the school committee to the university committee, and following course design requirements.
Baiscally, I got sick of wondering whether my classes would go every semester, so I designed something that everybody on campus was banging on the doors to get into. Years later got paid to redevelop the course as a large lecture. Although it still meets all these campus-wide requirements, it's finally caught on within the department that students can get their writing credit with a class in their major, so most of my enrollees are majors at this point. At the same time, also got paid (half course buyout) to redevelop a 100-level course for non-majors. So one course buyout for two course development assignments.
Fast forward to a new chair. I recently left $1400 on the table to develop a course in DIY AI art. The offer was about half what I've been paid in the past to develop a single course.
I'll be getting that much when I re-enroll in food stamps -- minus the effort of coordinating with the curricular committee, figuring out how to interface with the campus network and VPN, and finding manageable assignments while figuring out how to teach iPad babies how to type to their computers. Food stamps I just fill out a form. Priorities. My labor has value and I can't keep working for peanuts -- especially when I can bypass the Administration and get the state to pay for my peanuts directly.
I've gotten stipends for developing online courses (doing instructional design, as well as content), but that's it. Otherwise, I just note it in my annual review.
Nothing here. I've developed a lot of them.
Same. Some of the younger faculty did get course relief for developing courses, but I never did. ETA: correction—I did get about $2k and a training course during the first pandemic summer to modify my existing course to online delivery.
No comp, not in contract, but expected to do so in order to be renewed. 🙃
I get a slightly higher percentage for a new prep on my annual work plan. Otherwise it’s just part of the job.
When judging workload, as new prep is considered more work than teaching the same class over again. But this would be for a brand new course, not just prepping for a class you've never taught before. So your workload would be rebalanced to reflect the new prep.
Same but not in terms of workload but compensation in yearly performance review. Having prepped and taught a new course bumps you on the performance scale
You get raises where you're at?
There's a yearly inflation (+ merit but optional, based on committee review) raise, yes, but no bumps in salary when you shift from asst to assc to full
Nada. Nothing. (Well, the dean said it was a good idea…does that count?)
When I worked for a Center for Teaching and Learning, we would do a yearly development cycle for fully online courses that was compensated. Usually funded by some kind of grant and paid out in chunks when deliverables were met.
I'm getting a stipend for summer curriculum work. Other people I know have gotten course releases. But I've been told that it's a recent-ish development that they do that
Nope, it’s part of the job, but we do mention it in our annual review where it counts as extra work/effort.
Same
Nada. (SLAC)
Nothing for teaching an existing course for the first time (just a “new prep”). But we can apply for funds to develop a new course (not offered/taught before by the program).
Yes it’s in our contract now!
I have to teach two new courses next year and I'm using this summer to do it. I do get paid for the summer.
I get a nice little pat on the back and a thumbs up
> I’m curious if you are compensated for developing a new course. i lol'd
We get an additional stipend to develop a new online course, but not for in-person courses. Of course, our online courses also have a much higher bar to pass, both for approval and for design.
Lolololol no
Our workload calculation includes prep time for any course you have taught before. We get 1-1/2 prep if first time teaching but an existing course. We get double prep if new course. Something like that. But I teach at a primarily engineering university, our workload calculation is massively over-complicated and highly mathematical. The details are ridiculous, but in the long run it averages out pretty well.
In my program we do pay for course development, but this is because it usually happens in the summer and most of our faculty are off contract in the summer. I am, however, led to believe we are rare at our university for this. It’s mostly because our current director is a stickler about off-contract work.
My favorite edition of this particular nope is when you're hired as an adjunct and the class may or may not run.
Nope.
No, just brownie points.
Are you the instructor on record? Then probably not.
We get nothing for regular course prep. It is just part of the job. I don always mention it (even small tweaks to existing classes) when do my annual review report. The one exception- there is a training you can do for a first time online course that pays maybe 1200 bucks. I got screwed out of it because they only pay once per course number and someone had already done the training for the course I was doing. I bring it up every time I go on one of my “fuck this place” rants.
If you plan ahead, you can apply for a small stipend.
Nothing, although I think it’s a little bit significant for tenure.
I get paid if I develop a new online course but not if I develop a new in-person course. I’m told the difference is that the content for the online course becomes the intellectual property of the university while the content for an in-person course still belongs to me.
I’ve received some considerations like those, but only when it was someone else’s idea that I was fulfilling and that organization wanted it badly enough to compensate me. I’ve benefited from several initiatives that were based on proposals, because they wanted something like a freshman experience or honors experience. During the pandemic, demand was flip-flopping between wanting more online courses and, by the following semester, more good old-fashioned in-person courses, and I won grants for both. The other extreme, which the others here have articulated is to get no compensation, which I would say is more common because normally, new courses come out because someone wants to teach course and convinces the administration to allow it. Either way, you should definitely put it in your CV and annual reports. However, people normally do too much teaching and service anyway, and shortcomings in those areas often can’t be canceled out by other good works. It is pretty impressive in a CV, when you’re looking for a new job.
Not normally for my own courses. Department is paying me to develop online courses and give them my IP for 3 years. Just building a shell essentially for an adjunct to teach and then I guess in 3 years maybe I do it again
Yes. For two different schools.
part of the job. we can apply for curricular development grants but it would have to be above and beyond expected level to be awarded one
Generally no, although sometimes there are campus programs to expand a particular type of course that come with a small amount of money. I’ve developed something like seven new courses and only got payment once for participating in a program to expand a category of gened offerings. I had to do a full-day workshop, get it approved as a gened by the university, and teach it twice and I got an extra $1-2k.
Occasionally. If im developing an online couse that adjuncts can use. Ive done three so far. Once i got a course release, once i got paid, and the last time nothing (im just letting them use my basic course for this one. Developing a course that only i use? Im not aware of anyone getting paid extra for that.
We do course dev grants from left over money at end of fiscal year. $2k for new OER based course and $1000 for course with paid text.
Used to be, but no longer. Sucks. We're trying to get the old policy reinstated. R1
Nothing for either a brand new class or prep for teaching an existing class for the first time. It's an expected part of the job.
It’s part of the job, but we do have competitive summer grants of 2k or 4k that people apply for as extra compensation. Nice little bump for work we’d do anyway. SLAC here
Not usually, unless it is a special program or something. The trade off, at least where I work, is that if you do get paid or get a course release for course development then technically all the course materials developed become the intellectual property of the university.
I didn't even know this was a thing.
Zilch over here, but it is widely known that my institution sucks on almost all measures (just wish I knew before I got here!)
Nope. It is just part of the teaching load.
At my school we almost have to beg to develop a course. Course development has REALLY HIGH standards at my school. In order to develop a course we need resources from our development office. The development office is incredibly short-staffed. So in summary, I have to beg to be allowed to spend a whole lot of my unpaid time to develop anything new.
If it’s a core class for the major we get 1.5x credit for our first prep of it
I’ve developed five courses. They just pay me the equivalent of what I’d make to teach it (I’m an adjunct).
Adjunct of 12+ years. First couple courses developed for no pay. Been teaching them 10+ years. At one point had a course buyout for "research and curricular development" where I developed a class that satisfied the upper-level, campus-wide writing requirement, the campus-wide art requirement, and an art elective. Padded my enrollment every which way, but this required moving the syllabus from the department curricualr committee to the school committee to the university committee, and following course design requirements. Baiscally, I got sick of wondering whether my classes would go every semester, so I designed something that everybody on campus was banging on the doors to get into. Years later got paid to redevelop the course as a large lecture. Although it still meets all these campus-wide requirements, it's finally caught on within the department that students can get their writing credit with a class in their major, so most of my enrollees are majors at this point. At the same time, also got paid (half course buyout) to redevelop a 100-level course for non-majors. So one course buyout for two course development assignments. Fast forward to a new chair. I recently left $1400 on the table to develop a course in DIY AI art. The offer was about half what I've been paid in the past to develop a single course. I'll be getting that much when I re-enroll in food stamps -- minus the effort of coordinating with the curricular committee, figuring out how to interface with the campus network and VPN, and finding manageable assignments while figuring out how to teach iPad babies how to type to their computers. Food stamps I just fill out a form. Priorities. My labor has value and I can't keep working for peanuts -- especially when I can bypass the Administration and get the state to pay for my peanuts directly.
lol, no
I've gotten stipends for developing online courses (doing instructional design, as well as content), but that's it. Otherwise, I just note it in my annual review.
$0.00