Professional Education Partner: VESi
Orientation
Boise State’s College of Education offers online courses for teaching professionals. These courses have been developed in conjunction with Virtual Education Software Inc. (VESi). Listed below is orientation information all students should know.
Course Overview
- 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.
- To view a course syllabus, please visit www.virtualeduc.com/bsu.
- Courses are offered for professional education, undergraduate or graduate credit.
- Students receive an orientation email about course login, grading criteria, and course completion instructions through student BroncoMail on or after the first day of class.
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, graded 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.
- These are upper division courses. Please note there are
expectations for relevant research and student writing competence:
- Your writing assignments are graded on the relevancy of content, readability, grammar, spelling and
punctuation.
- Proper citation is critical when using authored or published work to support your research.
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 and submit final assignments by specified deadlines.
- Personal computer with dependable broadband Internet connection.
- Personal computer skills and the ability to send email and search the Web.
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Last reviewed:
November 22, 2011
