TY - JOUR
T1 - The Campus Alberta Applied Psychology Counselling Initiative
T2 - Web-based delivery of a graduate professional training program
AU - Collins, Sandra
AU - Jerry, Paul
N1 - Funding Information:
Currently, base program cost for the three-years is $10, 287 US. Students pay fees at a fixed rate over three years. Individual courses are available to non-program students at $727 US. The program operates on a cost-recovery basis, with approximately $447,260/year of funding from the Ministry of Learning in Alberta. Fee increases of 5% per year are anticipated over the next three years until we reach our peak enrollments, at 120 new admissions per year. At our projected steady state, there will be 8-9 full-time faculty and 4-5 administrative staff, serving over 300 students. Instructional and supervisory tasks are supported by a cadre of part-time instructional associates and adjunct faculty. The cost per course registration is currently estimated at $1,305 (total program expenditures/number of course registrations). These costs include all course materials, stipends for practicum and research project supervisors, administrative overhead, and so on. The cost recovery nature of the program makes it possible for us to respond to the market demands rather than to artificial caps on student enrollments that are the typical admission drivers in Canadian graduate programs.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The Campus Alberta Applied Psychology: Counselling Initiative is a collaboration between three universities in western Canada to offer a predominantly Web-based Master of Counselling program. This paper describes the basic structure of the program, the Web-based delivery system, communication tools employed, and the philosophical, pedagogical, programmatic, and administrative principles and concepts foundation to the development and implementation. Development of curricular content and learning processes have been driven by explicit examination of learner needs, a program-level competency matrix reflective of professional practice standards in the discipline of psychology, and deliberate and continuous formative evaluation and learner engagement in the process.
AB - The Campus Alberta Applied Psychology: Counselling Initiative is a collaboration between three universities in western Canada to offer a predominantly Web-based Master of Counselling program. This paper describes the basic structure of the program, the Web-based delivery system, communication tools employed, and the philosophical, pedagogical, programmatic, and administrative principles and concepts foundation to the development and implementation. Development of curricular content and learning processes have been driven by explicit examination of learner needs, a program-level competency matrix reflective of professional practice standards in the discipline of psychology, and deliberate and continuous formative evaluation and learner engagement in the process.
KW - Counsellor education
KW - Distance delivery
KW - Online learning
KW - Program development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=27644522019&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1300/J017v23n01_07
DO - 10.1300/J017v23n01_07
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:27644522019
SN - 1522-8835
VL - 23
SP - 99
EP - 119
JO - Journal of Technology in Human Services
JF - Journal of Technology in Human Services
IS - 1-2
ER -