What is
SCCOnline?
SCCOnline is Spartanburg Community College's distance learning program which offers college credit classes over the Internet to students. All SCCOnline courses are academically equivalent to traditional classes taught on campus, taught by the same instructors, and since students are learning in non-traditional modes, require a strong commitment by the student.
The students of the 21st Century are continually evolving in their familiarity and access to technologies in the home, at work, during leisure time and certainly in the educational environments in which they thrive. Our response, as faculty and innovators in the field of teaching and learning, is to address the needs of students which grow out of the increasing demands on their time and the perceptions of a new technology-oriented world in which we live.
SCCOnline offers several different formats in which to take classes:
Online Courses Online courses enable faculty to provide instruction to students via the Internet. Online courses provide students the ability to obtain course information, course notes and handouts, review a course calendar, communicate via email and participate in discussion with each other and the instructor, submit assignments and take tests, all without having to drive to campus. Some classes do require you to take tests in a proctored setting on-campus. If you have a modern pc with Internet access, you have most of the tools that you need to take a course online. Most of our online courses, as well as some traditional courses, use an online system called Blackboard. We offer over 60 online courses each semester and 4 online degrees.
Web-Supplemented Course Web-supplemented courses are on-campus courses that are supplemented by an Online component, often using Blackboard. The Online component may contain on-line discussion or chat forums, testing, or links for additional information presented in the course.
Hybrid Course Hybrid courses are on-campus courses which have reduced in-class time replaced by online activities.
Teleclass A teleclass is a course that is offered via two-way compressed-video in a distance learning classroom. Interactive video is used to present course information to students at multiple locations throughout the state, country or internationally. Spartanburg Community College currently has two distance learning classrooms located in the Tracey Gaines LRC Building on the central campus, that allow for two-way audio and video interaction between faculty and students with remote sites. The instructor has the capability to see, hear, and speak to the students at each of the participating sites and students are able to see the instructor and respond or comment on the lectures. SCCOnline currently broadcasts to distance learning classrooms at our off-campus sites at Cherokee County and Tyger River and to other technical colleges around the state.
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