Students can view television courses at home, in the Lane Library, and at outreach and community learning centers. Between 20 and 29 telecourses are offered fall, winter, and spring terms and approximately 10 courses summer term. Telecourses are available in a wide variety of subject areas such as child development, computers, personal nance, business, science, psychology, and sociology. Online Courses are complete courses that include lectures, notes, and assignments which are available to students through their office or home computers. Interaction with the instructor and other students is provided through the use of discussion forums and email.
All coursework is delivered online via personal computer and modem.
Tuition for distance learning courses is the same as for other courses. In addition, students pay a fee per course. Students receiving nancial aid or veterans benets should be aware there may be limitations on the number of distance learning courses they may take and still retain benets. The college serves as a receive site for video and online services activities for students, staff and outside organizations. VOS is a telecommunications network which extends the benets of live, interactive video, voice, and computer data communications to the state as a whole.