Online, Full Time Associate Professor - Medical Coding and Reimbursement

Position Status: Exempt

Reports To: Dean of Instruction, Program Manager, Faculty Administrator

Location: Online Remote. 

Position Summary:

Bryant & Stratton College Online Education instructors will support the college mission by facilitating an active virtual learning classroom through alternative delivery methodologies. Instructors will maintain contemporary knowledge and skills in their discipline to support their expected classroom responsibilities.  Instructors will participate in departmental and campus‑wide activities to support the needs of the student population and Online Education team.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate/post in discussion (along with managing classroom grading, contacting students, engaging in personalized retention efforts and outreach to support student success, ) a minimum of five days per week, per class, and have at least 100% student-instructor ratio in discussion with quality metrics. Requirements associated with qualitative metrics include:
• Respond to all students’ initial posts with substantive, high-quality, and higher-order questioning while using strategies consistent with the Community of Inquiry Framework and the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
• The seven principles are: Encourage contact between students and faculty, Develop reciprocity and cooperation among students, Encourage active learning, Give prompt feedback, Emphasize time on task, Communicate high expectations, and Respect diverse talents and ways of learning.
• Substantive responses must include personalized comments and ask a higher-level thinking question whenever possible.
• Close the loop after asking questions and receiving responses from students
• Post to start the week’s discussion
• Posts with supplemental resources and/or essential questions
• Maintain best practices in online teaching strategies for engaging career college students
• As weeks 1 and 7.5 are shorter, full-time faculty must facilitate/post in discussion over the four days with a minimum of 100% instructor-student interaction with quality metrics. Requirements associated with qualitative metrics include:
• Respond to all students’ initial posts
• Close the loop if a question was asked (instructor) and answered (student)
• Ensure the grade book is updated each week no later than Thursday by 11:59 pm, ET for Weeks 1-6, and 9 am ET Thursday after the last day of class for Weeks 7 and 7.5.
• Review student work, adhere to grading rubrics and provide detailed, individualized feedback.
• If grading is completed early in the week, review the grade book again before the grading deadline to ensure all submissions have been graded and zeroes have been reverted (if applicable).
• Ensure zeroes are entered weekly for students who do not submit assignment(s) by the due date.
• Late work needs to be graded when completing the next round of grading in the class to ensure students have an accurate picture of their standing in the class. It is not to be left until the end of the course.
• Ensure that zeroes are reverted each week for work that was submitted late.
• Utilize active learning strategies, authentic assessment, and APA guidelines in the classroom.
• Encourage student usage of electronic portfolio assignments to support the teaching and learning outcomes of the college.
• Follow the college’s plagiarism policy to promote academic integrity in all courses, no matter what level or subject matter.
• Utilize provided retention tools weekly from Weeks 2-7 to monitor at-risk students, communicate with students and their advisors (observers), and document outreach attempts.
• Comply with all student ADA accommodations provided by the ADA Coordinator
• Ensure high-quality course set up per guidelines each session.
• Understand the college's rigor standards, active learning strategies, best practices in Online teaching, and Bloom’s Taxonomy standards and be able to apply them to the classroom.
• Participate in “walking students to class” in Week 1 every session.
• Devote 2 hours of SSS time every week utilizing provided technologies.
• Use alternative communication tools and technology to provide a highly engaging and interactive learning environment for students.
• Respond to all outreach (email, text, calls, etc.) from students, supervisors, colleagues, etc. within 48-hours. This includes posts in the “Ask Your Instructor” forum in each section.
• Encourage student participation in student survey/faculty evaluation within each course and routin