This is what your fellow WVC classmates say:
•29% of the students indicated that they felt that the distance learning course was harder
than the traditional methods of instruction on campus
•14% said the distance learning course was easier
•57% said they were about the same
source: 2006/2007 Distance Learning Report
To find out read Are Distance Learning Course Right for You?
Then take the distance learning skills survey
To successfully navigate this course you should be computer competent in the following:
Microsoft Word (the Computer Applications Department offers many courses)
E-Mail including sending and receiving attachments
Internet (Click here to check browser requirements)
This distance learning course is conducted completely via e-mail, the Internet, and through telephone communication. The primary mode of instruction is through e-mail and Internet connection. You are expected to communicate with your instructor and other classmates about specific assignments. Most of your work, however, is done on your own through reading assignments and accompanying lecture materials.
In order to successfully complete this course, you should plan your schedule very carefully and try to stick to it. A campus course that meets two times a week will take an average of four hours of student preparation per week. Since you are not meeting as a traditional class, you can expect to spend an average of six to seven hours per week on your online course work. Look carefully at your work schedule, school schedule, and family obligations and allow plenty of time for each.
When taking a online course you must take the initiative to ask your instructor questions if you do not understand the material. You may have to communicate with your instructor with an e-mail message or you may have to call the instructor and leave a message on an answering machine. Either way, the response from the instructor might not be instantaneous. You must learn to move on to other material and wait for your instructor to respond.
This course will use the Angel course management system.
Access to Summer courses via Angel starts on the first day of instruction: June 16 for Library 4 sections 62933 & 72338. You can view the tentative syllabus by clicking here.
