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Distance Education Overview

Distance education is a real-time, two-way interactive compressed video and audio synchronized network. Using a two-way interactive compressed video system is akin to teaching on a two-way talking television. That is, you see and hear your local and remote students and they see and hear you (real time) over the system. To participate in a distance education class, students attend sessions at a local or distant classroom(s).

Currently there are more than 400 classrooms in Georgia. Distance education classrooms are located throughout the state at universities, colleges, technical institutes, K-12 schools, correctional institutions and other special sites including: Zoo Atlanta, Coca-Cola Space Science Center and Georgia Public Television. Distance education can simultaneously link up to sixteen other classrooms. Distance education sites can also link with systems outside of Georgia through a gateway by special arrangements. These special arrangements are coordinated through the Office of Classroom Services. There are external and internal fees generally associated with such arrangements.

The Medical College of Georgia Office of Classroom Services administers and supports eight distance education classrooms on the Augusta campus.