Following all approvals, the videotapes and media are copied and distributed. In addition to the production and marketing of telecourses, the LeCroy Center plays a major role in the delivery of the Dallas County Community Colleges distance learning program. This program includes over 100 telecourses and enrolls more than 3000 students each semester, utilizing over 100 faculty. Video program are aired on local public television as well as over cable. In searching for solutions to many pressing educational needs such as access, equity, excellence, and funding, educators worldwide have expanded their thinking by envisioning the classroom of the future.
Telecommunications technology is a key component of that vision.
Distance learning is an instructional option that throws open the doors to education across the nation and around the world. Learners from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations can be exposed to the best in instructional materials, instructors, and creative methodologies. Through the use of televisions, computers, fax machines, telephones, modems, and satellites, new and creative kinds of educational programs can bring the instructor and the learner together in classrooms without walls to form a new kind of learning environment at campuses, business sites, public libraries, community centers, and homes. Such a visionary application of technology to educational needs provides opportunities for information and learning to be shared worldwide. Distance learning delivers knowledge to those who need it.