Houston Community College System (HCCS) Distance Education
Training & Development HRPO 1302
Instructor
Michelle Dentinger Diaz, MBA
Instructor Contact Information and Contact Guidelines
Contact me via ‘Mail’ via email in Eagle. I will respond to all emails as soon as possible. Send
all assignments for this course via Eagle as well. Do not send assignments or course questions
via personal email or via telephone for this correspondence will not be recognized as course
information.
Instructional Support Specialist (ISS)
An ISS supports this course and is available to assist students. The students may contact the ISS
in an emergency or for general distance education support. The ISS for this course is Mrs.
Ayesha Gates in the DE Instructional office.
TEXTBOOK: Effective Training 5th Edition P. Nick Blanchard
ISBN 978-0132-729048
IT IS THE STUDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY TO PURCHASE OR CHECK OUT THE
COURSE TEXTBOOK IN ORDER TO COMPLETE WORK ON TIME. BE
PROACTIVE AND EXPECT DELAYS WHEN ORDERING TEXTBOOKS.
INSTRUCTOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELAYS IN TEXTBOOK ORDERING
AND WILL CONTINUE THE COURSE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT
STUDENT HAS A TEXTBOOK.
Statement of Purpose
The purpose of this course is to enhance the student’s knowledge and skills regarding training
and development in the workplace in order to become more effective as a business professional.
Prerequisites
This course does not have any prerequisites.
Course Goals
Course goals for this course follow the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
(SCANS) requirements of HCCS so that students gain workplace competencies. These goals
will allow the student to enhance workplace competencies in order to successfully gain
employment, continue employment, and/or enhance the student’s personal and professional
development.
Upon completion of the course, students will have achieved the following SCANS competencies:
I.
Resources: Identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates resources. We will accomplish this
through weekly communications with each other and fellow classmates along with meeting
course assignment deadlines.
II.
Interpersonal: works with others. We will accomplish this through our group project and
required course on line discussions.
III.
Information: Acquires and uses information. We will accomplish this through regular
use of the course textbook and course content then applying this information in our course on
line discussions, examinations and group project.
IV.
Systems: Understands complex inter-relationships. We will accomplish this through
course content understanding and fellow student interactions.
V.
Basic Skills: Reads, writes, performs arithmetic operations, listens and speaks. We will
accomplish this through our course on line discussions, reading, reviewing and outlining our
textbook chapters, and completing a group project.
VI.
Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows
how to learn, and reasons. We will accomplish this through course on line discussions, seeking
our resources for the group project and completing course exams.
VII.
Personal Qualities: displays responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management,
integrity and honesty. We will accomplish this through completing weekly chapter outlines,
completing course content in a timely manner, meeting commitments to group members, and
interacting with the instructor and fellow students regularly and in a positive manner.
DE STUDENT SERVICES
The Distance Education Student Handbook contains policies and procedures unique to the DE
student. Students should have reviewed the handbook as part of the mandatory orientation. It is
the student's responsibility to be familiar with the handbook's contents. The handbook contains
valuable information, answers, and resources, such as DE contacts, policies and procedures (how
to drop, attendance requirements, etc.), student services (ADA, financial aid, degree planning,
etc.), course information, testing procedures, technical support, and academic calendars. Refer to
the DE Student Handbook by visiting this link:
The student policies information is updated on line and it is the student’s responsibility to
review and keep up with updated policies and procedures at HCCS. Updates will NOT be
posted in the course itself; only at the above website. http://www.hccs.edu/district/aboutus/policies/d-student-services/.
DISTANCE EDUCATION ADVISING AND COUNSELING SERVICES
Much DE student information can be found on the DE Student Services website: de.hccs.edu.
Advising or counseling can be accomplished through online request for counseling services at:
http://de-counseling.hccs.edu/StudentSignIn/ . Student Services Associates (SSA) and Counselors
can assist students with admissions, registration, entrance testing requirements, degree planning,
transfer issues, and career counseling. In-person, confidential sessions, can also be scheduled to
provide brief counseling and community referrals to address personal concerns impacting
academic success.
For the following topics for DE Students, you must reference the most up to date
information on line in the Distance Education section of the HCCS web information at
http://de.hccs.edu/
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International Students
Students with Disabilities
Notice for Students outside of HCCS local area
Virtual Classroom Conduct
Scholastic Dishonesty
Attendance – Distance Education
Use of Cameras or Recording Devices
Early Alert System
Course Repeater Policy
HCCS Withdraw Policy for DE Students
Online Tutoring Available to Students
Registration is simple:
►Go to www.hccs.askonline.net
►Use your HCC student e-mail address
►Choose a user name and password YOU will remember
►Submit questions and papers 24 / 7/ 365 and get an answer within 24 hours
►Get help with papers for all classes, CHEM, and MATH.
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How to Navigate Through this Course
Stay in contact with fellow students. Ask questions and get to know other students in the class.
This course is a group effort and we shall learn from each other.
Read and outline the chapters indicated in the syllabus in order to be prepared for your course
examinations. I recommend students to read, review and outline one complete chapter per week
for this course during the fall and spring and two complete chapters per week in the summer.
Organize your time by managing the course content and setting realistic completion goals for
yourself for each item in course content. Many new on line students do not realize the amount of
time it may take to successfully complete an on line course. Time management and staying on
top of weekly work and not getting behind are the keys to your success!
Weekly Format
This course is broken down into weeks then broken down into lessons within that week. Each
chapter in the textbook is associated with a week. The week starts on Monday at 12 AM and
ends on a Sunday at 11:55 PM. All assignments, group paper and discussions are due on
Sundays by 11:55 p.m. Central Standard Time at the latest regardless of the time zone the student
may reside in.
Assignment Format and Submission Process
Assignments will include Internet research on relevant chapter topics. I will provide required
format for the assignment once the assignment is posted. It is the responsibility of the student to
retrieve the assignment on the course web page to complete the assignment by the due date.
Send all completed assignments to me via Eagle, not my HCCS email address.
You must include your last name and an abbreviated assignment title in your file name. You
must send your attachment as a rich text file (.rtf) format or a Word document. If you do not
send the attachment in the correct format, you risk not receiving credit for the assignment. Also,
only send ONE document per email!!
Student Forum Discussions
Your discussion content will not be graded if you post your discussion content either before the
‘open’ date or after the ‘close’ date indicated on the course outline of the syllabus (see below for
‘close’ dates). There will be no exceptions to the discussion open or close dates.
Grading for discussion content is: 0-50 points. SAMPLE Grading for discussions is at the
instructor’s discretion. For example:
50 = good information offered, strong point of view, not copied from a book or a web site,
creative, does not repeat or paraphrase others in any way and does not copy information from the
textbook.
40 = adds to conversation without repeating others, shows good use of resources, shows
knowledge on subject.
0 = repeats other’s answers, does not show interest, copies information from a web site or the
textbook, and does not add value to the discussion. Also, a zero indicates lack of participation in
general which may be represented by a one sentence response to the discussion (this will result in
a zero, no exceptions).
All discussions are open for participation until the ‘close’ date per the syllabus. Discussion
content posted after the discussion close date (always on a Sunday) will not be accepted and
thus, will not be graded. Again, your discussion content will not be graded if you post your
discussion content after the ‘close date’ indicated on the course outline of the syllabus. There
will be no exceptions to the discussion close dates. If a discussion is open, you may add content
to this discussion at any time during the semester.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Grade Breakdown, HCCS
A
B
C
D
F
90 – 100%
80 – 89%
70 – 79%
60 – 69%
Below 69%