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Glossary of Terms

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.