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About Distance Education
Distance Education extends the reach of the physical campus to offer courses, degrees, and related services in formats that help meet the demands of students' schedules, lives, and learning styles. For many, it provides the only or most viable option for fully pursuing higher education.
Distance Education is a crossroads for expertise in instructional science and the content leadership of exceptional faculty. Resources are found here for design and production covering the entire spectrum of possibilities from electronically delivered courses to hybrids that enhance the experience of today's learners while more efficiently using physical resources.
Distance Education advances teaching excellence at UVSC in three ways:
- DE applies instructional science and well researched best practices to the design of courses to help ensure strong student engagement and active learning.
- DE offers faculty training and certification opportunities in the use of instructional technologies.
- DE provides qualified assistance for faculty self-assessment, peer review, and formative student feedback.