You can now walk down the hall at your place of work and spend your lunch hour taking a course with like-minded colleagues seeking career advancement. You can also use your personal computer to locate library references and information. Distance Learning expands the reach of the classroom to deliver courses to off-campus sites, transmit college courses into the work place, and enable you to take technical and liberal arts courses in the comfort of your own home, according to your own schedule and many times at your own pace. As a group, distance learners are highly motivated mature students. The individual must have the discipline to establish a regular study schedule each week and adhere to it without having to be reminded by an instructor or classmates to meet deadlines.
Distance learning can be an important solution to the problems of access that adult learners face.
Capital Community College has found that telecommunications networks, particularly the World Wide Web, can make it possible to deliver education to adult learners when and where they need it. According to a survey conducted by the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans, employees rank continuing education as more important than childcare. Although some courses are still limited to certain states or regional areas, many programs are available to students nationwide and even internationally. For example, Capital already can boast enrollment of students from many other States in the U.S. as well as foreign students. Soon we anticipate you will even be able to register over the Internet.