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Contact Information:
Academic Outreach, Office of Continuing Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
302 East John Street, Suite 1406
Champaign, Illinois 61820 USA
| Phone: | 1-217-333-3061 or 1-800-252-1360 | | Fax: | 1-217-244-8481 |
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 Program Overview
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The Office of Continuing Education (OCE) at Illinois' (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Division of Academic Outreach offers continuing education for students and working professionals. With a long list of undergraduate and graduate, programs and courses, as well as several noncredit offerings, Illinois has a growing national and international presence for high quality online programs. Areas of study include agriculture and natural resources, education, engineering and computer science, library and information science, labor and industrial relations, and social work, as well as in many general education disciplines in liberal arts and sciences.
Some courses are offered online, some in face-to-face classroom settings within and beyond the state of Illinois and others use tools that promote synchronous learning. Most of the courses are taught by tenure track faculty of University of Illinois who teach on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
Degree Programs:
Students must participate in synchronous online class sessions for many, albeit not all, of the degree programs offered, however, all coursework and additional communication is asynchronous. A number of programs are cohort based, so students progress through their respective programs with other students on the same schedule. Students may choose to complete the program at a slower pace if this is approved by the online programs coordinator or if they prefer a program offered by Illinois that is offered entirely in an asynchronous delivery format.
Guided Individual Study:
Self-paced, undergraduate courses are available through the Guided Individual Study (GIS) program. These courses are mostly online and students can take up to six months to complete each course.
GIS courses are offered in a variety of subject areas, including:
• Afro-American Studies
• Anthropology
• Art
• Asian Studies
• Business Administration
• Business and Technical Writing
• Classical Civilization
• Educational Psychology
• English
• French
• History
• Human Development and Family Studies
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
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| Highlights
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- Programs are taught by faculty and instructors appointed by University of Illinois colleges and departments. Student support services are available, including enrollment and technical support
- Synchronous and asynchronous formats are available for more flexible schedules
- Most courses are 100% online
- High quality degree programs are available for working professionals
- Illinois' degree programs are well regarded, and rank highly in national surveys. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science's program was recently ranked number 1 in the country. The department of Human Resources Education is ranked among the top ten programs in the country in workforce education by U.S. News and World Report.
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| University Statistics:
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| Year Founded: | 1867 | | Total Enrollment: | 42,326 | | Undergraduate Enrollment: | 30,895 | | Graduate Enrollment: | 11,431 | | Distance Education Enrollment: | - |
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| University Overview:
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the most prestigious universities in the United States. The university consists of 16 colleges and instructional units, and offers over 150 undergraduate and graduate programs. The university is well known for having the largest public university library collection in the nation, and there are 286 buildings on the main campus. The university also boasts more than 394,321 living alumni, which includes 24 Nobel Prize winners and 20 Pulitzer Prize winners.
The U of I campus straddles the border between the two cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. Champaign and Urbana offer a range of entertainment and cultural opportunities including a performing arts center - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts - along with restaurants, cafes, shopping malls, theatres, museums, and parks. The twin cities are approximately three hours drive from Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis.
The Office of Continuing Education (OCE) began as the Division of University Extension in 1933, with the mission to serve the needs of working professionals, non-traditional students and lifelong learners. Keeping with its original mission, OCE continues to work with students all over Illinois, the United States and the world.
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| Program Delivery and Student Support
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Distance education students at Illinois are supported by Academic Outreach staff in many ways. Students can contact the office for various forms of assistance to facilitate their academic endeavors; this includes accessing library resources, addressing questions, helping with registration and related matters. Staff specialize in the following areas:
• Answering general curricular questions; guiding students toward courses that fulfill degree requirements
• Troubleshooting if a student has trouble submitting assignments, is unable to reach an instructor, access course templates, etc
• Serving as liaison between students and academic departments, financial aid, student accounts, CITES, and other campus service units
• Fielding students’ registration and tuition and fee assessment questions
Degree programs are delivered completely online through WebCT, Eluminate and Moodle.
Guided Individual Study courses are mostly online. In order to take these courses, students must have computers with a minimum Pentium II processor or equivalent. Some of the courses use WebCT. The following browsers are supported by WebCT:
Windows
Internet Explorer 5.5 (SP2)5, 6.0
Netscape 7.0, 7.01
AOL 8.0
Mozilla 1.5
Macintosh
Internet Explorer 5.1 (OS X 10.1) and 5.2 (OS X 10.2)
Netscape 7.0, 7.1x
AOL OSX
Mozilla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 (OS X)
Safari 1.2
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| Delivery Mode
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- RealAudio
- WebCT
- Elluminate
- Moodle
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