In order to help students—especially those with geographic and time constraints—facilitate their learning and make academic progress more effectively and efficiently, Evangelia University Distance Education program is designed as the institutional provision of support which involves no on-site attendance or face-to-face contact on the part of the students. This DE program is offered for all degree programs in Evangelia university. Since this program provides the students in this program with quality instructions equivalent to on-campus courses by taking a variety of effective delivery methods, this enables students to experience quality learning experience. This ensures that all the students in this program make the same level of academic achievements via this DE program as they could achieve via traditional on-campus courses.
All of DE instructors are highly qualified and well trained to offer effective DE instructions.
Students can easily access their instructors from the time of their enrollment. When the student is enrolled in courses of the DE program, the phone numbers and email addresses of instructors are provided to him. This is typically done by telephone communication or email transmission. Thus every student enrolled in the DE program will have access to the instructors of courses. Those students who use Moodle for on-line courses will have the ability to communicate to instructors through Forum or Chat on the internet. Usually the instructors will respond to student’s inquires within forty-eight hours, if not sooner.
They are especially required additional efforts to make effective teaching for his/her DE courses and interactions with DE students through unique communication methodologies, such as Moodle, Skype, phone calls, email, etc.
To ascertain this, the followings are required to DE instructors.
1. Interaction between professor and students
Using camera and mike system in the current conference room, every instructor can sign up for the appointed time with the student via cyber meeting. At these meetings, instructors should confirm case by case the level of their students, need of students, and suggestions. If there is difficulty in arrangement for the face-to-face meeting, the appointed phone meeting or email chatting should be met occasionally..
2. Submission of Students’ Progress Report
Based on this every week activity, the instructor should submit progressive report for the student to the D.E. Director more than four times per semester. After reviewing those reports, D.E. director may contacts the Registrar and the Academic Dean to discuss any academic advisory if necessary.
3. Distribution of All Class Materials
To make more effective and active class for both on-campus students and D.E. students, instructors should submit their handouts to the technician as late as one day before their classes. Handouts include handouts from the instructor, presentation materials by on-site students.
4. Special instructions for D.E. students
Instructors of D.E. program are asked to attach a special instruction for the D.E. students in their syllabi in order that they can follow the schedule of the class with their own pace.
A computer and internet capability are required components of the DE Program. Evangelia University utilizes the internet to allow individual students to maintain contacts with each other, to complete specific online assignments, and to interact with the faculty. Students should also become familiar with Moodle system through which a student accesses his or her registration, grades, accounting statements, course description and materials.
Also, the DE students should satisfy the same academic workloads as the on-campus student. Generally, each course would have a mid-term examination, final examination, research paper and reading assignments. The DE students go through the same academic tasks as the on-campus students through the sixteen week semester, except the on-site attendance. The work of the DE students would be graded in the same manner as the work of the on-campus students.
Since DE lacks in-class interactions, DE students are expected to actively participate in online discussions in a timely manner as the following:
•Students will interact with the postings of fellow students, contributing meaningful questions and comments.
•Students will express ideas and opinions concisely and clearly, taking care to respond with sensitivity and tact.
•Students will demonstrate interaction with course material.
•Students will post comments related to the subject matter of the course, limiting extraneous conversations to appropriate venues.
•Students will contribute meaningfully to the learning environment, consistently demonstrating reflection, application, and synthesis as appropriate to the course.
1. Online Course Pre-requisite
When students plan to take any classes through online, students are first required to take DE 101 Moodle Tutorial Course (1 unit) and get “Pass” grade to be allowed to register online classes. This course is offered every January, May, and August as a two-week course. Students who have sufficient knowledge and skills regarding the internet use and word processing and editing could be waived with this course by the approval of the IT manager.
2. Transmittal of All Lessons and Materials
Evangelia University uses Moodle course management system as a primary means of DE educational delivery (website http: evangelia.edu/moodle/). Students can log in each course they enroll via Moodle and download the syllabus, the lecture notes, and all of the course materials provided by the instructor. Also, students can access all lecture videos (including the first lecture video) of the courses they take via Moodle as each on-campus lecture is audio-video recorded and uploaded on Moodle. Each lecture video and class materials provided for the lecture are available to students within two business days after the lecture is given at campus. (note: CCR §71716(c)(1)&(2))
3. Cancellation and Tuition Refund
DE Students have the right to cancel the agreement and receive a full refund pursuant to CCR section 71750 before the first lesson and materials are received. Cancelation is effective on the date written notice of cancellation is sent. If Evangelia University sent the first lesson and materials before effective cancellation notice was received, EU shall make a refund within 30 days after the student’s return of the materials. As for the detailed cancellation and refund procedures, the Cancellation and Tuition Refund Policies of this catalog (IV. Financial Information. 4.) are applied to DE students.
4. Course-taking Method Change and Attendance
Students are required to change course-taking methods between on-campus and online classes within 2 weeks (same as add/drop period) from the first day of the semester. After this period, students are not allowed to change the method and should take their classes only by the method (online or on-campus) they choose. Thus, on-campus students’ attendance in online classes cannot be transferred to or counted as attendance in on-campus classes.
5. Academic Honesty
Regulations on Students’ Honesty (this catalog, II, B) and Academic Honesty (this catalog, V, O) are also applied to DE/Online program and students are required to perform academic integrity throughout their studies. Therefore, Students must not do dishonest academic behavior such as plagiarizing or cheating by using online information. To ensure student’s academic honesty, exams could be sent to the proctor directly and proctored by whom EU office accept as a proctor before the exam at the beginning of the semester. In this case, EU uses a proctor report form to ensure the quality and appropriate procedure of exams. Students with academic dishonesty will be penalized strictly according to these regulations related.
6. Assignments, Tests, and Standard Time Zone
Students should observe the due dates of all assignments and tests that are indicated by the syllabus or communicated by the professor. Late submissions and test-takings will cause the penalty with grades. The standard time zone for all of the assignments and tests is the Pacific Standard Time (PST) of America.
7. Computer Problems
Online students are responsible for their access to computer and the internet, so extension or late submission due to computer problems are not considered as acceptable excuses. When students have technical problems including computer problems with taking their online classes, they must contact the IT manager immediately to solve the problems.
8. Observance of the Copyright Law
Students must observe all the copyrights related to their online courses according to the copyright laws of both America and Korea. Students should use all the online course materials (e.g., lecture videos, lecture notes, PowerPoints) only for the purpose of learning, and not allowed to use or pass out the course materials to which the copyright laws apply outside the school.
9. Use of the Course Materials
When students have personal or public reasons to use any of online course materials, students should receive approval from the professor who created them and EU in written form and use the materials within the boundary of the approval purpose.
1. Technical Support
The Distance Education department at EU may provide DVDs or audio CDs to supplement the printed lecture note for a course with additional charge for expense. Especially when Moodle is employed as a teaching medium, the students can easily learn how to use it through a tutorial video in Korean provided upon the enrollment of each DE courses. In addition, each student in the DE program can receive an adequate assistance and training to use necessary technology in pursuing one’s academic education in this manner by contacting IT manager who is willing to serve them via the internet, e-mails, and phone calls.
2. Verification of Student Identification
Evangelia University DE program follows the common method of a secure login and password for Moodle users. In addition to this common method of verifying the identity of students, instructors will set up the appointed time that the instructor and students to communicate each other, either via phone calls or any visual communicative methods such as Skype. This direct communication time is set up not only for the verification matter of student ID but also for the intimate relationship between the instructor and the DE students.
EU has set up equipment for cyber communications with no additional charge on students.
3. Protection of Students’ Private Information
Upon the students’ enrollment in DE program, each student will be given a privacy release agreement form through the students may choose to release or non-release their personal information. The privacy of each student’s information shall be protected in accordance with the student’s choice. All of the information about students’ academic activities is also protected. Exceptionally, the information could be used when it is necessarily required by government or TRACS for investigation purposes.
EU Library has enough written academic resources for DE program. These are fully catalogued and added for circulation. Information of individual titles is in our computer system and retrieved by OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalog: http://www.evangelia.edu).
In addition, EU has ‘Library Resource Sharing Agreement’ with three university libraries below. These agreements include on-line periodicals and journal data bases. With EU student ID and Password, DE students can access both actual and online resources of the libraries.
1. Kosin University in Pusan, South Korea (http://library.kosin.ac.kr/KOSINLIB/)
Sung Soo Kim, Ph.D. President
2. Baekseok University in Cheonan, South Korea (http://lib.bu.ac.kr/)
Gab Jong Choi, Ph.D., President
The following online learning resources are also accessible via EU’s library website
(http://www.evangelia.edu/koreanprograms/library.html) so that DE students may utilize them and facilitate their academic learning.
| 한국국회도서관 (Korea National Assembly Library) |
http://www.nanet.go.kr/main.jsp |
| 국가 전자 도서관 (National Digital Library) | http://www.dlibrary.go.kr/ |
| KISS – Korean-studies Information Service System | http://kiss.kstudy.com/ |
| 21세기 지식 정보 센타 (21 Century Knowledge and Information Center) |
https://www.inetbook.co.kr/wdefault.htm |
| Biblos.com | http://biblos.com/ |
| Monergism | http://www.monergism.com/ |
| DBpia | http://www.dbpia.co.kr/ |
| Turabian Format | http://www.eturabian.com/turabian/index.html |
| Google Scholar | http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en |
| Zotero | http://www.zotero.org/support/ko/start |
