Policy for the Use of Videotape Courses

The University of Delaware is committed to the use of audiovisual works to enhance and extend undergraduate and graduate instruction. To insure that these products, and videotaped courses in particular, are used to support rather than replace live instruction in Newark, the following policies will direct their use:

1. Live courses instruction must remain the standard, with videotaped courses serving to facilitate the development of innovative educational programs (such as distance learning, supplemental or make-up instruction, and optional instructional formats.). The development of videotaped courses shall be based on sound pedagogical value, not solely on financial expediency.
2. Videotaped courses may not be used to replace faculty, or to change faculty teaching loads, and faculty may not be required to participate in videotaped courses.