Over the last several years, I have received many requests to take Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic, as a distance-learning college course through the web. At present, we don't have a formal structure that would allow that at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University (CSB/SJU).
However, given the apparent interest, I have discussed the idea with an administrator at CSB/SJU of possibly offering the course as a distance-learning course in the summer of 2006. Participants would receive college credit, and would have to pay a certain fee for tuition, the exact amount yet to be determined. I teach this course to junior and senior Chemistry/Biochemistry majors, so the online text requires that students have had one year of general chemistry and one year of organic chemistry at the college level.
I use Biochemistry Online as the sole "book" for my biochemistry course at CSB/SJU, BCHM 321. However, my students are also concurrently enrolled in the lab (12 -4 hour labs/semester). Obviously, an online course would have no laboratory. My students presently receive 4 credits for course and lab. If I were to offer my course next summer online, both tuition fees and credit structure would have to be worked out.
If I offer the course through the web, students would have full access to the interactive features (preclass questtions, problem assignments, etc) of the web which presently require a password. Presumably I would incorporate others as well.
If you would be interesting in taking this course in the summer of 2006, please complete the form below. If enough students are interested, I suspect the administration will find the way and will to make it happen. Thanks for your time.
Henry Jakubowski or Dr. J as my students call me.