Yakima Valley Community College


Welcome to YVCC's Distance Learning!
Welcome to Yakima Valley Community College’s Distance Learning Program! We are happy to provide this Distance Learning website to you. It has been prepared as a result of YVCC student, faculty, staff, and administration input. This website will introduce you to YVCC’s Distance Learning Program, Technology Services, and the many resources available to you as a student of YVCC. Please take time to review its pages and use it as a “readily available” resource and guide to the questions you may have relating to your Distance Learning coursework. The YVCC Distance Learning and Technology Services Teams are here to help you succeed with your educational goals! What is Distance Learning? You’re at work, wishing you could take a college course that fits your schedule. You need to learn and/or refine a new skill. You’d really like to start or finish your degree or certificate. You need to further your education to secure a job. You’d like to change careers. You’d like to learn something new and/or contribute your ideas to a group of others. The kids are fast asleep, but you think that no college is open past their bedtime. Distance Learning offers a great opportunity for students of many different backgrounds and goals to attain their educational goals. At Yakima Valley Community College, it is possible to complete many courses through the Distance Learning Program with proper advising.

Types of Distance Learning that YVCC offers are: World Wide Web-Based (Online), Interactive Television (ITV), and Distributed Learning/Hybrid.
	World Wide Web-based (ONLINE). These courses are developed to limit your time on campus and complete most work and interaction at a distance. Some instructors may require an orientation session or testing on campus. Students must also have basic computer literacy. Students who wish to take online courses must have access to a computer that meets the minimum computer hardware and software minimum requirements and has an Internet connection. Students have open access to the World Wide Web in the Student Technology Centers. Please review this handbook to learn more.

	Distributed Learning/Hybrid. Hybrid courses are a mixture of online and face-to-face interaction. A combination of video, Internet, class meetings, group work, and a variety of methods are used in Distributed Learning/Hybrid courses.

	Interactive TV (ITV). Courses are live, on-campus courses telecast to campuses at other locations. The instructor may be in your classroom or another classroom that you are connected with. You will be able to see and interact with students at the other locations through the closed circuit connection which goes from classroom to classroom. If you miss a class, some instructors make class recordings available for checkout.


Am I prepared and ready for Distance Learning?-Click here Located at the left top of this screen is a menu of topics related to Distance Learning. You may click over any topic to learn more about Distance Learning at Yakima Valley Community College.