InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

["Mark Scheible" <>]

That sounds fine to me.  Correspondence courses as defined in the HEOA would/might not even required the issuing of a credential, so the concerns wouldn't apply.

 

Mark

 

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From:	Ann West <>
To:	InC-Student <>
Date:	7/12/2010 11:43 AM
Subject:	[InC-Student] Distance vs Correspondance courses in Survey

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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