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Ken Rosier
Distance Learning
Program Director
Wharton
County Junior College offers quality Distance Learning technologies to support
the teaching requirements of WCJC.
Wharton
County Junior College is committed to promoting the quality of education through
technology mediated resources to all attending students. Distance Learning
provides two basic technologies to support instruction in today’s electronic
environment. Internet or Online classes and Interactive Television classes.
Internet or Online classes
are offered through a Learning Management System that provides access to classes
through a server based college. The student is required to log into a Learning
Management Platform where they will be presented with access to each class in
which they have registered. The student is provided access to other college
services such as library services, the bookstore, and more. Students have the
ability to review course material presented by the instructor, submit
assignments as attachments, take assessments, and correspond with the instructor
and other class mates.
Interactive Television
classes are utilized to provide instruction to remote locations from an ITV
classroom. In many cases, these could be college classes that are taught from
one campus to other campuses within our geographical area. This reduces the
amount of travel required by the student and faculty; and allows WCJC to
maximize the benefits of quality instructors to various locations. Another use
of ITV is to provide school districts with college courses to offer to their
eligible student body. This offering provides the student with a dual credit
benefit in that the student takes the college course and gains college credits
and high school credit for the same course at the same time.
As various
technologies are introduced that will support the educational aspects of Wharton
County Junior College and its students, the WCJC Distance Learning Department
will strive to provide these technologies to enhance the overall learning
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