What is it?
The Electronic Campus is gaining a reputation as the nation’s most successful marketplace of distance learning courses, programs and
services.
With hundreds of colleges and universities offering thousands of accredited courses and many degree programs, the
Electronic Campus is the place to start for distance learning. Anywhere in the world, people with access to
the Internet can visit the Electronic Campus at www.electroniccampus.org
and enroll in courses offered by many of the best colleges and
universities in 16 states.
Courses and programs are offered in a variety of disciplines and at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Among the fields represented
are business, education, computer science and nursing.
Who can visit this campus?
Anyone with Internet access can visit hundreds of the South’s best colleges and universities in a single afternoon.
The Electronic Campus gives students the freedom to choose courses they want to take and the colleges or universities at which they would like to take them. Potential students search the
Electronic Campus for courses that will meet their needs. They then can move, with the click of a computer mouse, to the Web sites of the colleges or universities that are offering the courses and can find information about enrollment, credit transfer, scholarships and student services.
The Electronic Campus is beneficial to people who want to obtain a degree, gain new job skills or add to their job skills, and its flexibility enables them to take courses wherever and whenever convenient for them. A student enrolled in courses through the
Electronic Campus never worries about finding a parking space on campus.
Special features and benefits
In addition to a continuously growing number of accredited courses and degree programs
at the undergraduate and graduate levels, the Electronic Campus has two new initiatives that will benefit students:
Electronic Campus Library Services and the SREB Distance Learning Policy Laboratory.
Through a contractual agreement with the Georgia Board of Regents, Electronic Campus Library Services provide students with access
to GALILEO, a renowned service that provides several databases of thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. This service is free to any
student taking classes through the Electronic Campus. SREB is working to incorporate several other library initiatives from across the region.
The Distance Learning Policy Laboratory will seek to remove policy barriers that hinder the expansion of distance learning. The laboratory will examine policies at the institutional and state levels and will recommend when these policies need to be changed or, if necessary, eliminated.
The Policy Laboratory initially has targeted tuition — specifically out-of-state tuition —
by promoting an “electronic tuition rate.” For a particular course, the tuition rate would be the same for all students regardless of their home state. A growing number of courses in the
Electronic Campus are available at the electronic tuition rate.
The Academic Common Market/Electronic Campus pilot initiative is a “marriage” of the old and the new at the Southern Regional Education Board. The 25-year-old Academic Common Market has enabled thousands of students to pay in-state tuition at out-of-state colleges that offer degree programs that are not available in their home state. The
Electronic Campus uses various technologies to give students access to courses and programs at times and locations that are
convenient to them. This pilot initiative provides the best of both — electronically delivered degree programs at in-state rates!
About SREB
The Southern Regional Education Board is the nation’s oldest compact for education. Its programs are designed to improve K-12 education and higher education in its 16 member states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
Need more information?
If you have other questions or need clarification, please visit the Electronic Campus at
www.electroniccampus.org or send e-mail to
ElectronicCampus@sreb.org. You may call the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta at
(404) 875-9211; ask to speak to someone associated with the Electronic Campus. |
