Satellite Educational Resources Consortium With SERC programs, students can join with thousands of others around the United States to participate in courses outside their regular school curriculum. Teachers and administrators can access courses for professional development. SERC is the only distance learning organization that is a partnership of public television and state departments of education. StarNet provides direct student instruction, professional development, and student enrichment for schools across the United States. Founded in 1985, StarNet brings a history of innovation and success in the production and distribution of educational programs and products to students, adult and K-12 teachers, and administrators.
Audiences receive the interactive, televised programs via satellite or their local cable systems.
STEP Star Network STEP Star Network provides schools with a sophisticated array of technologies designed to emulate the interactivity of a regular classroom. Students access moving imagery, graphics, sound, and text via a transparent interactive navigational system that encourages individualized learning, discovery, and exploration. A complete, accredited, high school degree sequence will be available on the Web. DLRN disseminates information from and for educators, administrators, policy makers and parents interested in the effective implementation of distance education.