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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Good Evening,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Recently, there has been questions about online courses and the difference between an online course and a correspondence course. The main difference really boils down to
regular and effective contact between the instructor and students. During an evaluation or during accreditation, you have to be able to show regular and effective contact, “demonstrating that the instructor builds and fosters classroom community in online
courses by fostering ongoing student engagement through dynamic and interactive discussions, forums, and group activities.” If a course can’t show that, it is considered correspondence, SRJC can’t collect apportionment, and it could lead to a needs improvement
evaluation. Other examples of correspondence courses include self-paced or regular contact that is student initiated rather than instructor initiated.<span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The SRJC Distance Education website and staff have a lot of valuable information to help you. I am including a link to their best practices web page below in addition to
information on Ed Code and ACCJC. I’m also attaching the OEI Course Design Rubric and a Self-assessment checklist based on OEI best practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I would be more than happy to facilitate a group discussion and/or training if anyone thinks it would be helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">DE Web Site:
<a href="https://de.santarosa.edu/content/best-practices-overview">https://de.santarosa.edu/content/best-practices-overview</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ACCJC:
<a href="http://www.accjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Guide_to_Evaluating_DE_and_CE_2013.pdf">
http://www.accjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Guide_to_Evaluating_DE_and_CE_2013.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AACJC<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Definition of Distance Education
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"Distance education is defined, for the purpose of accreditation review as a formal interaction which uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who
are separated from the instructor and which <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
supports regular and substantive interaction between the students and instructor, either synchronously or asynchronously.</span> Distance education often incorporates technologies such as the internet; one-way and two-way transmissions through open broadcast,
closed circuit, cable, microwave, broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite, or wireless communications devices; audio conferencing; or video cassettes, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, in conjunction with any of the other technologies.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Definition of Correspondence Education
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Correspondence education means:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(1) Education provided through one or more courses by an institution under which the institution provides instructional materials, by mail or electronic transmission,
including examinations on the materials, to students who are separated from the instructor;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(2) Interaction between the instructor and the student is limited, is not regular and substantive,
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and is primarily initiated by the student;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(3) Correspondence courses are
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">typically self-paced; and,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(4)
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Correspondence education is not distance education</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A Correspondence course is:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(1) A course provided by an institution under which the institution provides instructional materials, by mail or electronic transmission, including examinations on
the materials, to students who are separated from the instructor. <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
Interaction between the instructor and student is limited, is not regular and substantive, and is primarily initiated by the student. Correspondence courses are typically self-paced;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(2) A course which is part correspondence and part residential training, the Secretary considers the course to be a correspondence course; and,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(3) Not distance education. "1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Education Code:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5 CCR § 55204<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">§ 55204. Instructor Contact.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In addition to the requirements of section 55002 and any locally established requirements applicable to all courses, district governing boards shall ensure that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(a) Any portion of a course conducted through distance
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">education includes regular effective contact between instructor and students,</span> through group or individual meetings, orientation and review sessions, supplemental seminar or study sessions, field trips,
library workshops, telephone contact, correspondence, voice mail, e-mail, or other activities. Regular effective contact is an academic and professional matter pursuant to sections 53200 et seq.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Josh Adams, MBA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dean, Business and Professional Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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