The process below applies to all faculty, whether you are interested in teaching a course that is already offered in Distance Education format or not. While the forms consist of various checklists to guide you for each step of the process, we recommend that you first read everything below. At the end of this page, you will be directed to the forms page. If you have a question after reading everything below, check out the FAQ page or contact a member of the committee.
Some of the key questions you might want to focus upon include:
- Who will be taking this class? What learning skills will be required for students to be successful?
- What are the MOST important concepts, demonstrations, discussions, and activities that you do in this class in its current on-campus format? How will you accomplish these via distance delivery modes? If DE delivery modes might not be optimal, how can you architect a hybrid class with flexible on-campus meetings, or create alternative assignments that will encourage equivalent learning?
- Where is this class being offered in similar DE modes? What can we emulate? What additional technologies or services will be required?
Faculty should examine their own skills regarding technology and distance education. If the proposed course will involve the use of new technologies, the faculty member should define a timeline and roadmap of training required before the course may be delivered effectively (for example, Blackboard training is required prior to receiving a course site).
Working with Chabot's ITC staff, divisional colleagues and administration, members of the DE subcommittee of Chabot's Curriculum Committee, and experienced DE faculty, create a proposal (obtain proposal form of specific questions and view previously submitted proposals) that should be shared with subdivision colleagues. Use the following questions as a guide to the key issues to be discussed in your justification, focusing on the students who will take the course. (The proposal form will list the specific questions to answer).
Review the proposal formally with your division colleagues. Consider testing the ideas involved with a DE section in "sub-sections" of current on-campus classes, offering students the opportunity to participate with online resources, and sharing the results with divisional colleagues concerned with issues of retention and quality. Where possible, consider using the same assessment instruments as on-campus classes to facilitate comparisons of student success.
For instructors new to teaching online at Chabot College, presentation to the DE is required. Click on Forms to begin completing required paperwork and find out where/who to submit them to.