Advising, billing and transcripts are all handled through their home institution. Students also keep tuition to in-district costs because they are attending their home college. Students benefit from one point of service and expanded course offerings. Online course and program development can be shared throughout the state to create a full body of offerings for higher education and business and industry. It is designed to give flexibility to the college.
Colleges sometimes find themselves faced with a student demand for a course exceeding the supply.
Not all programs will have a full body of students to make the cost of program creation feasible. New strategies for teaching and learning must be developed as educators approach online education. The Learning Academy is being developed through Waubonsee Community College and is developing faculty training that provides online strategies for teaching with a focus on serving the community college student. Over one million dollars is available to colleges through curriculum RFPs. These dollars will allow the development of complete transfer degrees online as well as many high-demand technical and occupational certificate programs.