Online Education

There are different requirements for different types of courses. Courses offered online that are completely knowledge-based will be delivered in a different approach than courses offered that offer conceptual and critical thinking approaches. Regardless of which approach is utilized to deliver educational information, students are responsible for completing all their assignments. Assignments are weighted in order to ensure that a student is utilizing the learning management system and attending their classes online for the appropriate time required as if they were taking the course on campus. Some students may finish assignments faster than others, but regardless the weighted assignments are designed to achieve academic engagement in an online universe. Knowledge courses will have more lecture-based assignments, workbook projects, quizzes and other forms of academic activity that will ensure and measure a student’s progress of knowledge. Courses that are more conceptual in terms of the intellectual data delivered, will engage in more discussion boards, chats, projects and assignments that students in class on a residential campus would be except expected to participate in. Concept based material and content requires more cognitive and metacognitive measure, which means that the manner in which the instructor will be able to determine a student’s knowledge level is not solely through quizzes and tests but through discussion.

Students can expect discussion boards daily in all of their concept courses, as well as writing assignments, research and general participation in knowledge base quizzes. An online course requires as much academic engagement on behalf of a student as required on campus. Online courses also have homework, which is work in addition to the online course. Students should expect to engage in homework assignments and expect outside work to be graded towards their final grade. Please see your school catalog for more information on the grading system, and the syllabus in order to understand the categories measured.