{"id":6090,"date":"2025-08-09T00:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/?page_id=6090"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:40:36","slug":"regular-substantive-interaction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/faculty\/regular-substantive-interaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular &amp; Substantive Interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6090\" class=\"elementor elementor-6090\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-255068a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"255068a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ba4404b\" data-id=\"ba4404b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31c3559 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"31c3559\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The U.S. Department of Education requires that all\u00a0hybrid and online courses eligible for\u00a0<\/span>Title IV federal financial aid<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0include\u00a0<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Regular and Substantive Interaction<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0between instructors and students. This regulation is not optional; it demands that we establish consistent and meaningful engagement between instructors and students to ensure a quality online and hybrid learning experience.\u00a0<\/span>By meeting these expectations, we enhance student outcomes and clearly differentiate our hybrid and online courses from correspondence courses, which are ineligible for federal aid. Read more about RSI by visiting Open SUNY&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/oscqr.suny.edu\/rsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regular and Substantive Interaction<\/a> page in their Open SUNY Course Quality Rubric (OSCQR) resource.<\/p><h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Key Components<\/span><\/h2><p><strong>Regular Interaction<\/strong>:<\/p><ul><li>Scheduled and predictable engagement throughout the course.<\/li><li>Instructor-initiated communication.<\/li><li>Monitoring of student progress with proactive outreach.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Substantive Interaction<\/strong>:<\/p><ul><li>Must involve at least two of the following instructional activities on a regular basis:<ul><li>Direct instruction.<\/li><li>Assessment and feedback on student work.<\/li><li>Responding to student questions about course content.<\/li><li>Facilitating group discussions.<\/li><li>Other instructional activities approved by the institution.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p>These interactions can occur\u00a0<strong>synchronously or asynchronously<\/strong>, but must be meaningful and academic in nature.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fed3246 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fed3246\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f43d133\" data-id=\"f43d133\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57a3440 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"57a3440\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/files\/2025\/08\/Regular-and-Substantive-Interaction-Scale-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-6109\" alt=\"Graphic representing the scale of Regular and Substantive Interaction in online courses, ranging from Correspondence\/Low Impact to Distance Education\/High Impact.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/files\/2025\/08\/Regular-and-Substantive-Interaction-Scale-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/files\/2025\/08\/Regular-and-Substantive-Interaction-Scale-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/files\/2025\/08\/Regular-and-Substantive-Interaction-Scale-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/files\/2025\/08\/Regular-and-Substantive-Interaction-Scale-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/files\/2025\/08\/Regular-and-Substantive-Interaction-Scale.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education requires that all\u00a0hybrid and online courses eligible for\u00a0Title IV federal financial aid\u00a0include\u00a0Regular and Substantive Interaction\u00a0between instructors and students. This regulation is not optional; it demands that we establish consistent and meaningful engagement between instructors and students to ensure a quality online and hybrid learning experience.\u00a0By meeting these expectations, we enhance&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/faculty\/regular-substantive-interaction\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":0,"parent":5413,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6090","page","type-page","status-publish","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6090\/revisions\/6502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}