Cégep à distance
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{{Infobox university
|name = Cégep à distance
|established = 1991
|city = 6300, 16e avenue
Montreal
|province = Quebec
|country = Canada
H1W 2S9
|director = Carole Gaudin
|former_names = Centre collégial de formation à distance (CCFD)
|type = Public
|students = 17,000
|language = English, French
|parent = Cégep de Rosemont
|image = Cégep-à-distance.png
|image_size = 150
|website = [http://cegepadistance.ca http://cegepadistance.ca]
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Cégep à distance is a distance-education CEGEP that offers services which are complementary to those offered by the CEGEP network. It welcomes a diverse student body, many of whom come from the CEGEP network.
History
Cégep à distance was created in 1991 by the Cégep de Rosemont which had been mandated by the Ministère de l'Éducation to develop a distance education CEGEP. Initially known as the Centre collégial de formation à distance, Cégep à distance adopted its new name in 2002.{{Cite web|title = Bulletin Clic – Le Cégep@distance, vous connaissez?|url = http://clic.ntic.org/cgi-bin/aff.pl?page=article&id=1194|website = clic.ntic.org|accessdate = 2015-08-13|language = French|archive-date = 3 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174500/http://clic.ntic.org/cgi-bin/aff.pl?page=article&id=1194|url-status = dead}} In 2005, the ministry entrusted it with the mandate to develop distance education for the English-speaking community. Since 2023, Cégep à distance's English course selection is only available to visiting students with an authorization to study (commandite) from their college.
Mandate
The main function of Cégep à distance is to offer through distance education college-level studies programs that lead to a diploma of collegial studies (DCS/DEC) or to an attestation of collegial studies (ACS/AEC), both inside and outside Québec.{{Cite web|title = Cégep à distance – Cégep à distance|url = http://cegepadistance.ca/en/home-students/cegep-a-distance/|accessdate = 2015-08-13}}
As part of that mandate, Cégep à distance may also fulfils the following functions:
- Design and produce distance-education materials.
- Conduct studies and research on distance education.
- Promote partnership and dialogue with the CEGEPs.
- Promote and develop distance education.
- Develop courses and services in English.
Client groups
Cégep à distance accepts two types of clients:
- Admitted students enrol directly at Cégep à distance. These are students who come to Cégep à distance to...
- * Take general education courses (common to all DCSs/DECs) or complementary courses to complete a DCS/DEC
- * Earn prerequisites needed to enter university
- * Earn a DCS/DEC or ACS/AEC to access the job market or make a career change
- Visiting students with a signed authorization form (commonly referred to as a commandite) from their college to study at Cégep à distance. Their CEGEP issues a commandite so they can enrol simultaneously at Cégep à distance, usually because one of their courses causes a scheduling conflict or because it is not offered in the current session at their home CEGEP. Cégep à distance works with the other CEGEPs to help their students in their educational pathway and allow them to graduate sooner.
A few facts and figures
- 25,000 students per year
- Over 160 courses, a number of which are designed in English
- 35,000 courses registrations each year
References
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Category:Higher education in Canada
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