Course Orientation
An orientation e-mail about computer-based multimedia materials, deadlines, completion tips, and troubleshooting is sent to student BroncoMail accounts before courses begin. University policy requires students to use BroncoMail for university communications.
Description
- These courses teach techniques and strategies for use in school and classroom settings. Designed with practicing teachers in mind, you learn new perspectives in classroom and student issues and behaviors. The courses also provide effective tools to successfully handle various classroom situations. Course content is useful in many other fields such as social services, business, health, etc.
- Computer-based multimedia courses are offered for professional education, undergraduate or graduate credit in conjunction with an educational vendor, Virtual Education Software, Inc. (VESi). To view a course syllabus, please visit www.virtualeduc.com/bsu.
- All course materials are mailed to your home. All content is provided through special software designed to run directly from a CD-Rom disk which you will load onto your personal computer.
Course Design
Each course consists of chapters with reading material, followed by an exam, which includes both true/false and multiple choice questions. Each chapter of reading must be completed in its entirety before access to the exams is allowed. Each exam may be taken up to three times with the most recent score becoming the official exam score. Complete all section exams (with minimum 70% score), showing a competent understanding of the material presented. Students are provided with contact information for the instructor and for technical support staff along with a course syllabus.
Additional Requirements for Academic Credit
For students taking the course for academic credit, writing assignments are required:
- Critical Thinking Question. There is a Critical Thinking Question for each chapter which you will research and write a brief essay upon relating that question to the course content (and your personal experiences when possible). You must write a minimum of 500 words per essay.
- Journal Article Essays. This task requires you to write a review on three journal articles of your choice on a topic related to this course. You may choose journal articles outside the instructor's selected list, provided the content of the article relates to the course and you provide the journal name, volume, date and critical information so that the instructor can access and review that article. You must write a minimum of 200 words for each essay.
Requirements for Students
- Commitment and ability to access the BroncoMail student email account assigned to every student at Boise State.
- Ability to allocate approximately 40 hours to complete a 2-credit course, or 60 hours to complete a 3-credit course.
- Ability to contact the instructor independently with questions or problems via email or telephone.
- Commitment to complete all course modules and exams; ability to print out certificate of completion; and submit final assignments by specified deadlines.
- Personal computer with CD-Rom reader.
- Personal computer skills and the ability to send email and search the Web.
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Last reviewed:
November 20, 2009
