Howard College Distance Learning

The mission of the Distance Learning (WINGS) Network is to provide Howard College and its public with quality educational experiences at a distance for academic credit, personal enrichment, and/or professional development.

Students may take courses from Howard College through a combination of face-to-face courses, live/interactive video, and online classes. Corporate sites and independent school districts may join Howard College's WINGS network to become receiver sites for credit and non-credit courses. The WINGS network increases opportunities for high school students to participate in concurrent enrollment and early admissions with Howard college. Selected junior, senior, and graduate level college courses are taught from educational consortia and then sent live to selected sites with two-way audio, increasing opportunities to participate in upper level and graduate degree programs while on the Howard College campus.

Howard College faculty members teaching over distance participate in special training programs and ongoing assessment. All courses include ongoing interaction with faculty.

All degree program requirements, course work, and prerequisites are the same as for on-campus students. All credit courses run accordingly to the regular academic calendar. Students may complete degrees in selected program areas and register for Distance Learning classes at the same time and in the same way as for on-campus classes. To enroll in any Howard College credit course, students must first be admitted to Howard College. For online classes students must be able to access the Internet.

Howard College is an institutional member of several educational consortia dedicated to the delivery of instruction by distance. These consortia include the Regional Electronic Academic Communication Highway (REACH) with the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Midland College, and Odessa College; the Southwest Consortium for Advancement of Technological Education (SCATE); the Virtual College of Texas, and the Texas Consortium for Educational Telecommunications.