Virtual College of Texas
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NOTE: The following information was
taken from the VCT web site.
The Virtual College of Texas (VCT) is a collaborative
of Texas' fifty community college districts and the Texas State
Technical College System. It functions as a service of the Texas
Association of Community Colleges. Through VCT, students may take
courses from colleges anywhere in Texas while getting support services
from a local college.
To take a course from a remote college, a student
enrolls at a local community or technical college. The local college
supports the student with a full slate of student services, including
advisement and counseling, financial aid, and learning resources.
The local college receives the student's tuition, fees, and the
state's reimbursement for the enrollment. This college also awards
credit for the course and transcripts it.
The remote college provides course instruction.
Assignments, tests, and grades are administered by one of its instructors.
For this instructional service, the local college pays the remote
college an "instructional lease fee," as specified in
an agreement between the two colleges. This is not an additional
fee for the student.
This arrangement between local and remote colleges
makes it possible for VCT member colleges to leverage their distance
learning resources -- including faculty, courses, support services,
and technology -- to benefit students throughout Texas no matter
where they live or where instruction originates.
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