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Glossary of Terms
Curriculum map (-ping): process/matrix used to indicate where student learning outcomes are
covered in each course. Level of instructional emphasis or assessment of where the student learning
outcome takes place may also be indicated.
Distance education: refer to the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-315,
§103(a)(19) and JRCERT Policy 10.800 - Alternative Learning Options.
Asynchronous distance learning: learning and instruction that do not occur in the same
place or at the same time.
Distance education: an educational process characterized by the separation, in time and/or
place, between instructor and student. Distance education supports regular and substantive
interaction synchronously or asynchronously between the instructor and student through one or
more interactive distance delivery technologies.
Distance (Delivery) technology: instructional/delivery methods that may include the use
of TV, audio, or computer transmissions (broadcast, closed-circuit, cable, microwave, satellite
transmissions); audio, computer, or Internet-based conferencing; and/or methodologies.
Hybrid medical dosimetry course: a professional level medical dosimetry course that
uses a mix of face-to-face traditional classroom instruction along with synchronous or
asynchronous distance education instruction. Regardless of institutional definition, the JRCERT
defines a hybrid radiography course as one that utilizes distance education for more than 50% of
instruction and learning.
Online medical dosimetry course: a professional level medical dosimetry course that
primarily uses asynchronous distance education instruction. Typically, the course instruction and
learning is 100% delivered via the Internet. Often used interchangeably with Internet-based
learning, web-based learning, or distance learning.
Synchronous distance learning: learning and instruction that occur at the same time and
in the same place.
[Definitions based on Accrediting Commission of Education in Nursing (ACEN) Accreditation Manual glossary]
Equivalent: with regards to certification and registration, certification by the American Board of
Radiology (ABR) as a radiation oncologist or the American Board of Medical Physicists (ABMP) as a
medical physicist.
Faculty: the teaching staff for didactic and clinical instruction. These individuals may also be known as
academic personnel.
Faculty workload: contact/credit hours or percentages of time that reflect the manner in which the
sponsoring institution characterizes, structures, and documents the nature of faculty members’ teaching
and non-teaching responsibilities. Workload duties include, but are not limited to, teaching, advisement,
administration, committee activity, service, clinical practice, research, and other scholarly activities.