| Title | Creating web-based versions of courses for existing certificate program |
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| Submitting Dean | Dr. Ronald F. Levant |
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| Submitting College | Arts & Sciences -- Annabelle Foos x7937 |
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| Departments Generating the Proposal | PAUS |
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| Objection Deadline | May 25, 2009 |
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| Proposal Status | Final Approval Granted |
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| Proposal Last Updated | October 05, 2009 by PR Karen Greene |
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| Effective Date | Fall 2007 |
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| Brief Summary of Proposal | In 2003 the certificate program for the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies was revised. The change in the certificate program was premised on the use of a combination of web-based and secondarily weekend courses as a way to reach a wider audience of public and non-profit sector managers. Without approval to offer course as web-based courses we cannot offer the certificate, or at least not offer it in the way it was intended. Rather than request a change for every course in the certificate program, the department at this time is seeking only approval for selected courses in four certificates--- Public Management, Non-profit Management, Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation. Those courses would be as follows: 3980:600, 3980:601, 3980:611, 3980:615, 3980:617, 3980:662, 3980:663, and 3980:671. These courses were selected because they have been taught by faculty with prior web-based course experience and/or Springboard instruction. It is the intention of the department to offer both "classroom" based and web-based versions of these courses in the future. Based upon the experience with web-enhanced courses we anticipate few changes in the format and structure of the courses. In those courses that have already been offered in the web-enhanced medium little more than a shift of the delivery of assignments and an expansion of the number of electronic interactions (chat rooms, etc.) will be required to convert the course from web-enhanced to web-based. For the courses which have not yet been offered in even the web-enhanced format then the change to the instructional approach is more extensive. The changes to be made will focus on two elements: first, a more aggressive stance on issues concerning plagiarism, with the University web information being linked to each syllabus; and, second, a restructuring of the delivery of lectures and assignments. To reflect the expectation of the Buchtel College Council each course will require a minimum of weekly interaction with the instructor either in a chat room or in assignments submitted via e-mail. With the obvious exception of in-class presentations, the web-based classes will be quite similar in content, structure and assessment methods as the web-enhanced and land-based courses.
The syllabi for the web-based courses proposed here are modified versions of the current classroom based courses. For reasons of accreditation and good pedagogy the web-based courses proposed herein will have the same learning outcomes and readings as the parallel traditional formatted courses.
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| Type of Proposal | Course changes only |
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| Graduate School Endorsement Status | Approved |
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| Graduate School Endorsement Updated | April 23, 2007 by GS Heather Blake |
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| Institutional Research Status | Approved |
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| IR Status Updated | April 18, 2007 by IR Dolores Bezilla |
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| Library Status | Approved |
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| Library Status Updated | April 12, 2007 by UL Del Williams |
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| Distance Learning Review Committee Status | Approved |
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| DLRC Comment | need to address online vs. web-based, and equivalency issues, and provide new version to DLRC with changes highlighted
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| DLRC Status Updated | April 15, 2009 by PR Karen Greene |
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| General Education Advisory Committee Status | Not required |
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| GEAC Status Updated | May 04, 2007 by PR Rex Ramsier |
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| Resource Requirements | No additional resources |
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| Resource Requirements Updated | December 22, 2006 by AS dean's ofc Flo Fiehn |
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