Saturday, August 23, 2008

ACCESS Program topic three

The Alabama Connecting Classroom, Education and Students Statewide(ACCESS) is a program designed to help students that need to take a course on-line that may not be offered at his or her school. The program is offered to students grades 9-12 across the state of Alabama.
This program will help students that live in rural areas who may not have many course offerings available to them.
It provides access to high quality instruction and course work by providing a technical infrastructure to deliver sound courses by the internet.
Whats neat about ACCESS is that teachers can bring up a screen that is visible to the class to demonstrate how to work a problem or question, as well. Multiple screens can be shown at the same time and instructors can teach two or three classes at once.

ACCESS Distance Education is a state funded project and is free to all public school students within Alabama. Learning strategies also include the creation of three additional support centers, increasing the number of quality distance learning available to students,developing a blended course model and providing additional computers for on-line course access.

I think this program is very resourceful and can help a lot of students further their education. It can be helpful for students that need to take AP courses to get an advanced diploma and don't have the courses they need available to them. It is a good opportunity for hands on relationships between students and teachers.
To form a good student-teacher relationship is very essential. I hope this program help as many students as possible.

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