Blue Mountain Community College

What is Distance Education?

Distance education is any kind of learning in which students and the instructor are separated by time and/or place. It can be delivered using various methods of technologies, including:

Online Courses:

Course offerings are provided over the Internet, with instructors located at either BMCC or another Oregon community college (host/provider). Tests are conducted either online or an approved proctored site.

Elluminate Live

is a web-conferencing tool used at Blue Mountain Community College. It offers the opportunity to interact with faculty and other students even though you may be miles, even oceans, apart. Basically, you take classes from any computer that has Internet access. You can take classes while sitting at home in front of your personal computer. Elluminate Live classes can be done in real time; in other words, the instructor is teaching the class and you are there watching it happen on your computer, or you can log in at a later time and attend the recorded class.

Interactive Video Conferencing (ITV):

Classes originate from another site but are real-time and place. Classes are offered through interactive television or Web-based software

Interactive Video Computer (IVC):

Students may meet at a designated BMCC site and interact with the instructor and students at other sites.

Guided Instruction:

Courses are taught through the mail only, with materials presented on paper in the form of study guides and textbooks (no videotapes). Students contact the instructor in writing, electronically, or through telephone discussions.