User Info/Resources: About Distance Education

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• What is Distance-Learning?
  Don't know what distance learning is? Don't know if distance learning is for you? Click here to get answers to some general questions you may have about distance learning.
  
  
• Just How Ready Are You for Distance Learning?
  Educational research has linked ten indicators of readiness with successful independent study.
  
  
• Netiquette
  "Netiquette" is network etiquette, the do's and don'ts of online communication. Netiquette covers both common courtesy online and the informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace.
  
  
• Definitions of Delivery Methods (used in DESC.info)
  

  -	Audio: courses offered via audiotape
  -	CAI: computer-assisted instruction, in which courses are made available via computer at a local machine or by specialized network/system
  -	CD-ROM: courses offered via CD-ROM
  -	2-Way Compressed Video: courses offered over specialized compressed-video networks
  -	E-mail: courses offered via electronic mail
  -	ITFS/DELC: courses offered via microwave signals and/or compressed video through K12 DELCs
  -	Open broadcast: courses offered via cable or microwave in which the course broadcast is "open" or available to students in a particular region or locality
  -	Satellite (A): courses offered via analog satellite, which can be downlinked by standard "home" receiving dishes
  -	Satellite (D): courses offered via digital satellite, which can be downlinked with specialized digital receiving dishes
  -	Videotape: courses offered via videotape mailed or otherwise made available to students
  -	WWW/Internet: courses offered over the World Wide Web or Internet (including WebCT, Blackboard, streamed/video-on-demand courses, etc)