College Catalog - SUNY Adirondack
College Catalog - SUNY Adirondack
College Catalog - SUNY Adirondack
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DISTANCE LEARNING<br />
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goal<br />
Access! Opportunity! Connect! learn! is the goal of <strong>SUNY</strong> <strong>Adirondack</strong>’s initiative for distance learning. <strong>SUNY</strong><br />
<strong>Adirondack</strong> aims to increase access and opportunity for getting a great education by providing course delivery<br />
options that meet the needs of busy people with many demands on their time.<br />
Through distance learning, students can take Web-based courses anywhere they have access to a computer and<br />
the Internet.<br />
aBout DIStanCe learnIng<br />
Students can take a <strong>SUNY</strong> <strong>Adirondack</strong> online internet-based course from the comfort of their home, their office,<br />
or anywhere else they can work on a computer with Internet service. <strong>SUNY</strong> <strong>Adirondack</strong> online courses are similar<br />
to traditional classroom courses in that they are both taught by the same experienced faculty and have the same<br />
kind of readings, assignments, and deadlines. Online courses are not self-paced. They follow the same semester<br />
calendar as campus-based courses.<br />
In contrast to classroom courses, however, online courses are asynchronous - students and faculty aren’t gathered<br />
in the same place at the same time to work together. Instead, within the deadlines of each assignment,<br />
online students can log into their course any time of day or night. One student may visit his course at midnight<br />
while another begins her online studies at 6 a.m. faculty and students also swap ideas and questions via asynchronous<br />
assignment and discussion tools right in the online course. No “real time” online chats or campus visits<br />
are required.<br />
Online students can build their “class” time around all the other demands of their work schedule and family responsibilities<br />
instead of having to attend class at a fixed time every day. Online courses are also ideal for current<br />
part-time students who want to take classes full-time but who can’t be on campus more than a few hours a week.<br />
And what student hasn’t run into the problem of finding out that two required courses are being offered at the<br />
same time. This kind of scheduling conflict doesn’t happen with online courses.<br />
suny adirondack 2010/12
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