INSIDE Going the Distance Heart Beats Online, Open Entry Open Exit (OE/OE), and Hybrid Learning Courses Open New Avenues for Students by Peter Hubbard NEWS EDITOR
Volume 27 | Issue 3 October 7, 2013 what’s INSIDE Going the distance Heart Beats Online, Open Entry Open Exit (OE/OE), and Hybrid Learning courses open new avenues for students By Peter Hubbard NEWS EDITOR Distance Learning, briefly summarized, is access to learning through electronic Schoolcraft's Heart Beats media when the learners are on thanks to talented Art separated by distance and Department Head Sarah time. Basically, learners ac- Olson. cess instructional material Page 10 through virtual mediums (predominately the internet) Don Jon Delivers instead of going to to physi- cal classrooms. Although in- structors and students are in different locations, continual interaction facilitates the un- derstanding and application of content. “The reason online classes are growing has to do with the population. Now people are The acting/directorial chops online natives, and it’s how fu- of Joseph Gordon Levitt ture generations are learning,” should not be missed. Stacy Whiddon, Schoolcraft Applied Science (AAS) in Avia- PHOTO BY LINDSEY WELLS Page 18 College Instructional Designer tion Management, Business- The OE/OE Lab located in the Biomedical Technology building is points out. She explains that General, Marketing & Applied open to students enrolled in Open Entry/Open Exit courses. Stories from the online courses were origi- Management, and Small Busi- Field nally utilized for students who ness for Entrepreneurs. In ad- found it impossible to come Number of courses offered online since 2003 dition to these degrees other Number of courses offered online since 2003 to campus. However, times 1000 2012 2007 1000 credentials such as certificates 2012 2007 have changed, and now many can all be completed without 2011 2006 2011 2006 students find they learn better 800 2010 2005 setting a foot on campus.
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