Distance Learning

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Distance learning or distance education is a way of delivering instruction, over a distance where the learner and instructor are apart, but interact via technology. At DCC, this technology includes the World Wide Web, e-mail, videotapes, and interactive video link.

Web-based courses are asynchronous, so you connect to classmates, faculty and resources at a time convenient to you from any web-capable computer. DCC is a member of the SUNY Learning Network that offers many courses via the web. Videotapes of all video courses are also available at the College's Instructional Media viewing lab in C.B.I. 129. Students may also rent the tapes from RMI Media, Inc. as well as the DCC bookstore. DCC also uses our Blackboard DCC Server to enhance certain web-based courses. The College has an interactive video link between the main campus in Poughkeepsie and Dutchess South in Wappingers Falls. Students who wish to take selected credit classes may attend classes in the distance learning classroom at either site, and should register for whichever location is most convenient.

DCC students can take numerous courses through the SUNY Learning Network (SLN) and view course materials for selected on-campus courses through Blackboard. Web-based courses allow students to work at locations and times that are convenient for them. Although most of the work can be done from home, some of the courses require labs or other on-campus meetings. A few of the courses may also have mid-terms or finals on campus.

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