InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Ann West <>]

All,

In doing some research regarding the remote proofing presentation that Renee 
and I are scheduled to deliver next week at ATC, I found the following 
clarification of correspondence and distance educaiton courses as explained 
in the HEOA:

Correspondence Education means:
 (1) Education provided through one or more courses by an institution under 
which the institution provides institutional materials, by mail or electronic 
transmission, including examinations on the materials, to students who are 
separated from the instructor.
(2) Interaction between the instructor and the student is limited, is not 
regular and substantive, and is primarily initiated by the student.
(3) Correspondence courses are typically self-paced.
(4)Correspondence education is not distance education.

 Distance education means education that uses one or more of the technologies 
listed in paragraphs (1) though (4) to deliver instruction to students who 
are separated from the instructor and to support regular and substantive 
interaction between the students and the instructor, either synchronously or 
asynchronously. The technologies may include –
(1) The internet
(2) One-way and two-way transmissions through open broadcast, closed circuit, 
cable, microwave, broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite, or wireless 
communications devices;
(3) Audioconferencing, or
(4) Video cassettes, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, if the cassettes, DVDs, or CD-ROMs 
are used in a course in conjunction with any of the technologies listed in 
paragraphs (1) through (3).
 

I propose that we stick to using distance education students as our target 
audience and refer to this definition in the survey, although I like adding 
something like "...for the purposes of completing a degree or other formal 
program." Thoughts?

Ann

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Ann West, Sr. Program Manager 
Internet2/InCommon/Michigan Tech 

 

 
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