We are delighted that you have joined the Distance Education Center in our mission to provide excellent distance education anytime, anywhere. Your expertise will help us create lifelong learning opportunities for our students. This is a very exciting time to be a part of distance education. No longer on the fringes of education, learning that takes place independently and at a distance is central to our future.
New technology can make distance learning more immediate and more engaging.
The possibilities for innovative use of new media to provide flexible instruction at a distance appear to be limited only by our imaginations. We have many years of experience in offering a well-respected curriculum of traditional correspondence courses, having offered college courses since 1909 and high school courses since 1929. Building on this experience, in 1987 we developed the Migrant Student Program, which ensures that migrant high school students receive coordinated instruction and earn credit for graduation no matter where they are. Because of the range of distance education alternatives we offer, our students are able to register at any time and from any place. Our courses carry regular middle school, high school, or college credit or help prepare for professional certification, and we have established high standards for our courses, our instructors, and our students.