College of the Redwoods
CURRICULUM PROPOSAL FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE
Date: 4/6/13
1. Division: Health Occupations
2. Course ID and Number: HO-15
3. Course Title: Nutrition
SHORT TITLE (appears on student transcripts; limited to 30 characters, including spaces): Nutrition
4. Please select the distance education method that best describes how the course content will be delivered to most
students taking this class:
CTV
DE 52: One-way video and two-way interactive audio (delivered video and telephone)
ITV
DE 51: Simultaneous Interaction: Two-way interactive video and two-way interactive audio
Online
DE 71: Internet based - Simultaneous Interaction: Session under supervision of instructor not
available by line of sight using the Internet with immediate opportunity for exchange
between participants.
DE 72: Internet based - Delayed Interaction: Session under supervision of instructor not available by line of
sight using the Internet without the immediate involvement of the instructor.
Other
DE 53: Simultaneous Interaction: Two-way interactive audio only
DE 60: Text One Way
DE 70: Audio One Way
5. Attach course syllabus to this proposal.
6. What perceived need will this distance education course address?
HO-15 is required for the MA:AS, MA:CA,DA:AS,DA:CA LVN:ASLVN:CA and RN:AS programs.
Offering this course online give students who live in outlying areas and students who work parttime or full-time greater opportunity to fulfill their program requirements.
7. Describe in detail how the course content will be delivered and how students will engage this content. Be sure
to describe the specific technologies and/or software to be used.
Most instructional material will be included in the Lessons or Resources module. The
instructional material includes video lectures (captioned and transcribed) created by the
instructor and embedded in the Lessons/Resources module. Written lecture notes with textbook
diagrams explaining important and/or difficult concepts will also be in the Lessons module.
Weekly discussions will engage students in the course material. Quizzes and exams will test
students knowledge and CCC Confer sessions will review important concepts prior to exams.
8. To illustrate the description in #7, describe what students in this course may do in a typical week of this course.
Sample Week: Week 3, Nutrition Tools, Dobrowolski. Students view a video announcement
(with transcript) using EyeJot on Monday morning. A To Do List is included in the
announcement and on the MyCR home page with the weekly reading assignment, discussion
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assignment and quiz due dates. The students view a video lecture created by the instructor
which explains difficult and important concepts. Following the video, students read the
written lecture notes from the instructor in the Lessons module that are designed to explain
the textbook concepts as well as share personal and professional experiences. After
completing the reading, the students participate in a discussion. During Week 3 the students
discuss how optical illusions influence appetite. The students are required to run an
experiment testing 5 friends and family by having them pour water into short wide glasses or
tall skinny glasses and measuring the results. They present their data in the forum and
discuss their results in comparison to Dr. Wansink's results (part of their weekly reading). The
students present their work by Friday and must comment on two student's experiments by
Sunday. The instructor guides the discussion as needed. Office hours are generally
Wednesday or Thursday evening within the MyCR ChatRoom and students can ask questions
and receive answers in a realtime chat. Lastly, students must take Quiz #3 in the Tests &
Quizzes folder by Sunday night. The quiz covers the textbook material and the material in the
lecture notes and lecture video.
9. Title V mandates “regular and effective” contact between DE students and the instructor. Describe the nature
and frequency of instructor-student interactions in this course.
The instructor answers all questions within 24 hours. Questions are asked and answered by
email, MyCR Messages, Private Forum Messages, the ChatRoom, the "Questions for Instructor"
forum or by phone. This policy is stated in the syllabus and on the home page. Generally,
questions are answered within a few hours. Office hours are maintained on a weekly basis to
allow for real-time chat. Announcements are sent out every Monday morning (some instructors
use video announcements). The instructor asks questions within the forum to initiate the
discussion and guides students in the discussion when appropriate. Every week, the instructor
grades the discussion posts in a timely manner, posting individual feedback for each student by
Wednesday following the Sunday night due date. Both online instructors for HO-15 utilize CCC
Confer for live webinars to deliver course content.
10. Describe the nature and frequency of student-student interactions in this course.
Students interact within the discussion forum on a weekly basis. They are required to answer
a question set within the forum and then reply to two or more students during the week. They
must post within the forum on at least two different days. Students are also encouraged to make
comments in the ChatRoom and there is a "Student Forum" where they can exchange ideas, ask
questions and work together on course material when appropriate.
11. Describe how you will identify and respond to students experiencing difficulty in this course.
Students who are not participating in the discussion are contacted the second week of the
course and encouraged to participate. Students who are not regularly engaging in the
discussions, who fail to take multiple quizzes or do not complete portions of the diet study
project are contacted. Students who are experiencing difficulty in the course are offered help via
email, a phone call or CCC Confer private session. Students who are experiencing technical
difficulty with the CMS are referred to Tech Support.
12. Will exam proctoring be required?
No
Yes
If yes, who will proctor exams?
13. Describe how assessments are used in this course to ensure that student work is evaluated effectively and
accurately.
Four types of assessments are used in the course, quizzes, discussions, exams and a diet
study project. Multiple choice quizzes test the students knowledge of the weekly material. The
students instantly receive their grade, but not the correct answers. They are given the
opportunity to retake the quiz as many times as they would like throughout the week. The correct
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answers and detailed feedback for each question are made available for the student to review
after the quiz closes. Weekly discussions give students the opportunity to analyze important
concepts and apply the material to real world situations, reflecting on past experiences. The
exams are similar to the quizzes except the questions involve more case studies and application
of the material. The exams are timed and the questions are drawn from a pool of questions to
prevent cheating. The Diet Study project is a semester long project in which students analyze and
evaluate their own diet. The instructor provides feedback on their diet study mid-way through the
project and answers questions about the project throughout the semester.
14. Describe the equipment and staff resources necessary to support the course for students and instructors.
The CMS is Sakai/MyCR and the staff resources used are Tech Support.
15. Describe the contingency plan for this course if access to the delivery system is interrupted.
Short interuptions in the delivery system have minimal impact because all assessments are
available for one full week. Due dates can be extended if access is interrupted on a Sunday. In the
event of a system wide, extended interruption, the content can be delivered via CCC Confer and
written exams can be taken in the library.
16. Both state and federal law require community colleges to design courses to ensure access for students with
disabilities, including compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Please indicate the steps taken to
ensure accessibility by checking the Yes, No, or NA boxes below. For further assistance with accessibility and
assistive technology, please contact DSP&S.
Yes No NA Requirement and Purpose
1. The course delivery provides a text equivalent for all non-text elements such as images,
animations, applets, audio/video files and art. This will enable a screen reader to read the
text equivalent to a blind student.
2. The course delivery provides descriptions for important graphics if they are not fully
described through alternative text or in a document’s content. The description would inform
a blind student of what a picture represented.
3. The course delivery ensures that information conveyed by the use of color is also
understandable without color. For example, so a blind or color-blind student could
understand a color-coded representation of DNA.
4. The course delivery provides textual equivalents to audio information (captioning). The text
will enable deaf students to know what others are hearing.
5. The course delivery provides an alternative audio description for multimedia presentations.
The sound will enable blind students to know what others are seeing.
6. The course delivery ensures that moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating objects or
pages may be paused or frozen. The movement can be distracting for students with certain
disabilities.
7. If using faculty web site vs. college provided course management system, the web site
identifies, by labeling or other appropriate means, row and column headers. The
identification will enable screen readers to discern the headers, which disclose the purpose
of the data in the rows and columns.
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Yes No NA Requirement and Purpose
8. If using faculty web site vs. college provided course management system, the web site
provides title frames and includes sufficient information as to their purpose and relationship
to each other. This will help blind students understand the organizational purpose of the
frame.
9. If using faculty web site vs. college provided course management system, the instructor has
ensured, through HiSoftware’s “Cynthia Says” http://www.cynthiasays.com/ or other
appropriate verification, the usability of pages, and will attach to this proposal evaluation
printouts of Section 508 and WCAG—Priority 1 compliance.
10. My course syllabus recommends that students who require accommodations for a disability,
such as accessible formatting of course materials, contact me immediately. Example: “In
compliance with equal access laws, I am available to discuss appropriate academic
accommodations that you may require as a student with a disability. Students are
encouraged to contact Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSP&S) for disability
verification and for determination of reasonable academic accommodations.”
Submitted by: Christine Dobrowolski
Tel. Ext: 4977
Approvals:
Department Chair: n/a
Dean, Distance Education MaryGrace McGovern
Division Chair/Director: Pat Girczyc
Date: 4/6/13
Review Date:
Review Date: 4/19/2013
Review Date: 4/15/2013
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE USE ONLY
Approved by Curriculum Committee: No
Yes
Date: 05.10.13
Academic Senate Approval Date: 05.13.13
Board of Trustees Approval Date: 06.04.13
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Academic Senate Approval: 03.04.09
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