The total fall enrollment for the WHYY Home CollegeService's first semester is 2,257 students!

This stunning figure places the WHYY Home College Service as the seventh largest distance learning service in the nation, and the largest East of the Mississippi. This surpasses the number one distance learning service, the Northern California Telecommunications Consortium, which enrolled 2,122 students its first semester in 1989.

The success of the WHYY Home College Service is due tothe efforts of many, especially representatives from the leading colleges, Camden County College, Delaware County Community College, and Community College of Philadelphia.

 

 

Distance learning was taken into cyberspace with the debut of Professor Robert Smolenski's totally onlineVisual Basic course, offered this fall through DelawareCounty Community College. Students used the WHYY First Class bulletin board system to receive class materials and submit assignments.

Students, who numbered an impressive 38, participated with a modem over the Internet or dialed in directly to WHYY. In a typical scenario,assignments were posted in the "homework" section of the bulletin board, and students completed them on their own using the Visual Basic programming language. Completed assignments were transferred electronically to Professor Smolenski, and he could run them on his personal computer to test if they worked.

WHAT DID PROFESSOR SMOLENSKI THINK OF THE EXPERIENCE?


"My overall impression is that this method of instruction will be the model for the future. There are so many benefits to online distance learning, and so few disadvantages, that this new approach will be adopted by all higher education institutions."

 

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