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The Santa Monica College Distance Education Program offers faculty members a unique approach to online teaching, innovation in class conversion, and effective non-traditional teaching and learning concepts. The process to submit a proposal is outlined below:
Discuss the Distance Education Proposal
- Discuss with the department chairs and other faculty and make possible modifications
to the course, given its method of delivery. The course objectives and content remain
the same for traditional and distance education delivery.
- Ensure that there is sufficient support, the interaction between students and other
students, instructor, and content and that the student taking the course will have
equivalent experience to students taking the course on-ground.
- Review the course outline of record for proposed class and determine what changes will need to be made to offer it via distance education.
Please refer to the Distance Education Presentation by Gary Huff, Laura Manson, and Tammara Whittaker from the May 6 Curriculum Committee meeting for a complete overview on the regulations, requirements, considerations and Best Practices for submitting a course for Distance Education.
Submit the Distance Education Application
Please note: There is now one workflow in META for all Distance Education proposals – use the “Course: Distance Education (DE)” workflow for submitting courses for fully online, hybrid, and/or emergency distance education (AODECO: Approved for Online Delivery in Emergency Contexts Only). This workflow should also be used for submitting a change from AODECO approval to fully online and/or hybrid. You can select the delivery method in the Distance Education application in META.
- Refer to the “Submitting a Course for Distance Education Handbook” for the details on how to submit a new or existing course for Distance Education
within META.
Note: If the course has not been updated in the past two years, it must be updated at the time it comes through the Curriculum Committee for DE approvals - Discuss with the department chair and ask for the support of the course proposal,
in a department meeting, and have the chair enter the department vote in the “Comments”
during their Approval Step in META.
- The course will also go through approval from the Curriculum Technical Review before
appearing before the committee.
- Launch the proposal in META, once the Distance Education application is approved at all stages within META, it will be reviewed by the Curriculum Committee, Academic Senate, and approved by the Board of Trustees.
Questions?
- If you have further questions about submitting a course for Distance Education, contact your Curriculum Committee Representative or Department Chair for guidance.
- See Exemplary Distance Education Application Examples:
- If you are encountering technical issues with META, please contact Rachel Demski at Demski_Rachel@smc.edu