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Online Course Proposal for Sophists University Cassandra Daniels Daryl Flinn James King and Carla Onate

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Proposal and Rationale Sophists University is a mid-sized dual mode institution. Business Writing, an undergraduate course, will be offered as a blended course. Business Writing (Titled English 390) will cover different types of business communications. Students will benefit from face-to-face and virtual learning environments so that they will be marketable and relevant in todays global workforce.

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Proposal and Rationale (continued) Sophists University strongly believes that the goal for education is to prepare students with the skills that promote economic health of our society and the political health of a democracy (Rheingold, 2010).

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Course Description for ENGL 390 All students are required to know how to use the Internet, Email, and basis word processing. Students will gain knowledge about written communication, such as business letters, memos, short reports and proposals. This is a 15 weeks, 3 semesters hours course. This course will be offered in the Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters.

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Course Management and University Cost ENGL 390 will be taught 3 times in the 1 st year. By year 8, to run this course it will require one manager and a full time secretarial staff. The internal charges will cover maintenance of buildings and grounds, HR services, capital investment in buildings and ICT services. A minimum return to the University of $5000 per course is required.

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Course Materials and Development The textbook for this course is Business and Administrative Communication by Locker and Keinsler. Other materials will be taken from the Internet, which includes e-books, databases and journals from Sophists Universitys Library. Social Medias such as Twitter and blogs will be used. The course instructor, instructional designer and web designer will work as a team in developing this new course.

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Student Support The instructor will provide instructions in a face-to-face and virtual setting for this course. There will be three in class assessments during the semester. Tutors will support and monitor online activities for 5 hours a week for 30 students. The tutor will provide face-to-face assistance with final group project.

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Assessment Through face-to-face and virtual instructions, students will be assessed with quizzes, exams and one collaborative projects. The instructor will create the quizzes and Sophists University is responsible for the design and layout of them. An administrative staff member will moderate the two-hour face-to-face exam.

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Envisaged Enrollment ENGL 390 should have 90 students in the first year as an elective course. In later years, a core course in a number of other programs, which will yield a higher enrollment for this course. Year two 150 students, year three 210 students and 270 in the years to follow.

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Course Updating, Review and Fee The course will be reviewed in the third year, and the updated course offered in the fourth year. The external reviewer will be paid $1000. Setup of course in the LMS will be $500. Domestic students will pay $500 per unit and international students $700 per unit.

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ACTIONS Model and Access Tony Bates ACTIONS (Accessibility, Cost, Teaching and Learning, Interactivity and user- friendliness, Organizational Issues, Novelty and Speed) Model was used to determine the media for ENGL 390. According to Bates (2005) accessibility and flexibility of technology is the most important element when considering which technologies to integrate in a virtual course.

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Teaching and Learning Sophists University decided to make ENGL 390 a blended course due to careers in business depends heavily on technical and social skills. ENGL 390 will consist of three types of learning, face-to-face with instructor, virtually with the LMS and with external electronically resources.

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Course Overheads and Development Costs Overheads Management ongoing - $15,000 Secretarial Support ongoing - $25,600 Management Development - $31,000 Secretarial Development - $25,600

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Development and Production Costs Instructional Designer - $3,400 Instructor - $8,800 Web Designer - $1,300 Course Guide - $250 Internal Fee - $500 Exam Writer - $220

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Maintenance Costs and Semester Presentation Costs Instructional Designer - $850 Instructor - $2,200 Web Designer - $325 Increase Questions in Test Bank - $220 F2F Classes (30 students) - $88 Online Classes (30 students) - $3.80 Exam Reviewer (Per 120 students) $16.67 Marking Exams (30 students) - $1.00