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Note: Students are advised to contact their Program Counselor prior to dropping to discuss potential impact on financial aid, refunds, and other educational impacts.
Students are responsible for officially dropping classes or withdrawing from campus for the term. Stopping attendance in class does not constitute dropping a class or withdrawing from a term. Lakeshore will only drop students from courses if the student initiates a drop as described above. Class fee refunds are issued in accordance with guidelines established by the Wisconsin Technical College System. The refund amount received is based on a few factors, including when the drop occurred and how much class meeting time has elapsed.
COURSE DELIVERY METHODS
Flexible learning options improve accessibility and affordability to many of the same courses offered in a traditional on- campus classroom.
• Accessibility: options tailored to fit diverse schedules, locations, and pacing requirements.
• Affordability: reduce cost of travel, daycare, and time away from work.
• Same courses: the course outcomes do not change, only the delivery.
Traditional, Video Conference, Online, Blended, Hybrid, Competency-Based Education (CBE), and iFlex
These courses are designed to offer greater convenience and learning options.
• Traditional and Technology-Facilitated courses are delivered in a face-to-face setting. The course may use technology to facilitate instruction.
• Video Conference courses are delivered via network or web conferencing.
• Online course content is delivered 100% through the internet and accessed by students using a web browser in
an asynchronous and possibly synchronous format. Courses may require proctored (supervised/onsite) testing. Students are required to complete work by specific deadlines throughout the course. The following are essential for online courses:
o Accesstoacomputerwithinternetservice.
o Strong motivation to achieve a goal.
o About3hourspercrediteachweekforclasswork(mayvarydependingonclass,content,skilllevel,
etc.).
o Goodtimemanagementskills.
o Computerskillsinemail,internet,andbasiccomputeroperations.
• Blended courses use online learning activities to aid in learning the course material and reduce face-to-face instructional time. Less than 50% of the course instruction is delivered via online using the internet combined with face-to-face instruction. For example, a course that normally meets twice a week as a traditional course may only meet once a week or every other week in a blended course. The course schedules show the times the course will meet in a face-to-face format. The student will need access to a computer with internet service.
• Hybrid courses combine online and face-to-face instruction. At least 50% but less than 100% of course instruction is delivered via online using the internet (accessed by the student using a web browser), combined with face-to-face instruction. A one-time face-to-face course orientation or off-line supervised tests/exams at specified sites may be conducted in conjunction with these courses.
• iFlex is a course delivery that lets students have the flexibility of attending in person or online, as their schedule allows. Students have equitable components, such as learning activities, assessments, and recorded lecture content, whether sitting in the classroom or learning online. Structured due dates are present throughout the course. Class time may vary, depending on individual course. Check course schedule for meeting times and locations.
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