Idaho Electronic Campus

The Idaho Electronic Campus (IEC) serves as an online 'marketplace' for online courses offered by the state's seven publicly funded colleges and universities. IEC seeks to provide services and support to traditional students as well as lifelong learners. Participating colleges and universities across the state of Idaho, US, offer online courses through the IEC web site, though all manage admissions, registration, course delivery and certification/degrees at the individual level.

After extensive consultation, the Idaho Electronic Campus was launched in 2000 as a collaborative effort by the Idaho Board of Education, Access Idaho (a public-private partnership), and Idaho’s seven public institutions of higher learning. In an unusual model for a US state:

>>The IIC provides, at no cost to the institutions, the necessary hardware and software to host the distance learning web site, the Idaho Electronic Campus. The Board and participating colleges and universities provide the necessary data and information in an agreed upon electronic format.

Courses may be offered via e-mail, internet, CD-ROM, videotape, broadcast television, ITFS (instructional television fixed service), microwave, satellite, interactive video, audio tapes and audioconferencing.

It is difficult to gage how many courses are presently available; although the IEC web site seems to be maintained, a September 2008 search of its course catalogue showed listings for 2005 through 2007 only. The web site (updated in 2007) states that 1600 courses are available and that, of these, only two participating institutions offer complete undergraduate and postgraduate degrees (North Idaho College and Boise State University).

The Idaho Electronic Campus web site is at http://www.idahoe-campus.state.id.us/

More details

A list of participating IEC institutions can be found at http://www.idahoe-campus.state.id.us/find/schools.html.

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