General Information

Distance Education courses are designed for people with scheduling problems and busy lifestyles. Instead of attending regular classes, students use the Internet to work independently. There are no limits to the total number of credits that may be earned via distance education courses. Course content, college credit, and transferability are the same as for courses offered on campus. Students have the same rights, privileges and obligations as on-campus students. These courses have the same academic demands and rigor as on-campus courses with assignment deadlines and scheduled time periods for quizzes and exams.

ONLINE INFORMATION
To see up-to-date information about specific Temple College Distance Education courses, click the "eLearning Courses" link on the left navigation pane. Under the desired semester, click the appropriate course delivery method link, "Internet," “Hybrid” or "Interactive Video," then click the link for specific courses to see instructor information, course requirements, and orientation information.

REGISTRATION
The admissions and registration processes for Distance Education courses are the same as for all Temple College courses, and Distance Education courses have the same pre-requisites and other requirements.

ORIENTATION WORKSHOPS
Participation in an orientation workshop for a distance education course is not mandatory, but highly encouraged. Available face-to-face orientation workshops are available on-campus. In addition, a virtual tour is available online by clicking the eLearning Tour link on the Temple College eLearning web site. To see up-to-date orientation information, go to the specific course pages as explained above.

TEXTBOOKS
Textbooks for some distance education courses are different from textbooks for on-campus sections of the same course. Textbook information is provided in the course description, syllabus or instructor-led orientation sessions. The Temple College Bookstore stocks all distance education textbooks.

TESTING
Students enrolled in distance education courses take tests and exams during the semester. Test and exam date information will be given at the orientation sessions. Unless individual instructors agree to other arrangements, students must come to the Temple College Testing Center for tests and exams. In many cases an instructor will allow a student to arrange to take tests at another college testing center, but this decision rests solely with the instructor.

LIBRARY
The Temple College Library has approximately 57,000 volumes in its collection and more than 40,000 electronic books available through the netLibrary database. The Library maintains subscriptions to nearly 400 journals and magazines with many issues available on microfiche or microfilm. In addition, the library subscribes to many periodical databases which permit on and off-campus access to thousands of newspaper, journal, and magazine articles to currently enrolled Temple College students. A Temple College user name and password is required for off-campus use. The library also provides computers with Internet access and Microsoft Office for those students requiring the use of a personal computer or Internet access. If you are enrolled in a distance education course, you may contact the library by telephone or use our library question form to find out how to obtain library books, how to use our online databases to search for journal or magazine articles, or to ask other questions. Temple College students attending classes at the Taylor campus may find the Texshare card useful in making it possible for you to check out books from participating libraries that are closer to you than Temple.

INTERNET COURSES
Temple College strongly recommends that a learner have regular access to a computer with Internet connectivity when registering for an online and/or hybrid course. Learners may use a computer in a Temple College computer lab on the main campus or at one of our Centers. Other software and hardware requirements are noted in the specific course home pages, which you can see by following the above listed directions. Your class notes, assignments, and discussions will be sent to you and returned through the web. You may need to come on campus for an orientation session, for objective tests, and/or for the final exam. These decisions rest solely with the instructor.

HYBRID COURSES
Hybrid courses are delivered as a combination of traditional classroom and Internet instruction. Learners can attend class lectures in person as well as access assignments online. Using computer-based technologies, instructors use the hybrid model to incorporate lecture or lab content into new online learning activities, such as case studies, tutorials, self-testing exercises, simulations, and online group collaborations. The goal of hybrid courses is to join the best features of in-class teaching with the best features of online learning to promote active independent learning.

INTERACTIVE VIDEO COURSES
Interactive Video courses originate from a videoconference classroom on the main campus or the Texas Bioscience Institute. They may be received in a classroom at Holland High School, the Temple College Taylor Center (TCT), the Temple College Cameron Center (CEC), or some other location. Students taking videoconference courses from remote sites come to class at regularly scheduled times and interact with the instructor and on-campus students as if they were in the same room.

VIRTUAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS
The mission of the Virtual College of Texas (VCT) is to provide all Texans access via instructional technologies to quality instruction and support wherever they may live, regardless of geographic, distance, or time constraints.

If there is a course you would like to take and Temple College does not offer it, you may want to take the course through another college in Texas. The Virtual College of Texas allows you this option. To view the courses available, go to the VCT Web site at http://www.vct.org. For more information, contact the Temple College VCT office at 254-298-8319. You may also e-mail inquiries to sally.tietje@templejc.edu

Please explore this Web Site to learn more about Temple College Distance Education.

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