Distance Education
Bladen Community College offers students several alternative presentation modes for courses and programs. Distance learning at BCC is an instructional method in which the majority of instruction occurs when the student and the instructor are not in the same place.
- Distance learning presentation modes include:
- Blended: College curriculum or continuing education course in which less than or equal to 50% of the instruction is delivered online
- Interactive Television: North Carolina Information Highway interactive television classroom instruction
- Hybrid: College curriculum or continuing education course in which greater than 50%, but less than 100% of the instruction is delivered online
- Online: Internet-based instruction
- WAC: Support/linked to support classes
- Web-assisted: College credit or continuing education course where the content delivery is via traditional face-to-face methods with a requirement that students have Internet access as a supplemental part of the course
- Work Based Learning: a combination of student on-the-job training and instructor visits
- Courses offered via distance learning modes are of the same academic rigor as traditional, seated courses and carry the same academic credit as seated courses.
- Distance education courses appear on the regular academic semester schedules and are designated by special section number designations:
- B - # sections indicate blended courses
- IH - # sections indicate Interactive Television
- OL - # sections designate on-line courses
- H - # sections designate hybrid courses
- WA- # sections designate web-supported or web-assisted courses
- WAC - #section indicate support/linked to support classes
- WBL - # sections designate cooperative courses
Distance orientation is offered at the distance education link on the BCC website.