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CREDIT FOR PRIOR LEARNING
LTC recognizes its responsibility to provide advanced placement status to those students with valid and credible learning experiences that have occurred outside our college classrooms. Credit for Prior Learning, sometimes called Advanced Standing, may be granted for the following situations:
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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 to fit your schedule, location, and pace needs.
• 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 you 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. What you will need for online courses:
o Access to a computer with internet service.
o Strong motivation to achieve your goal.
o About 3 hours per credit each week for class work (may vary depending on class, content, skill level,
etc.).
o Good time management skills.
o Computer skills in email, internet, and basic computer operations.
• 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. You 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.
• Competency-Based Education (CBE) is an outcomes-based approach to earning a college credential which organizes academic content around competencies and measures academic progress as the attainment or mastery of competencies. CBE is an academic model in which the time it takes to demonstrate competencies varies and the expectations about learning are held constant. Learners demonstrate mastery through multiple forms of assessment, often at a personalized pace.
• 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.