130 Years of Remote Learning at Queen's

From the Gold Rush through two world wars to the dawn of the internet age up until now, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 has been delivering exceptional distance learning programs.  

This fall, you카지노 게임 컬렉션�ll be doing something you카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve probably never done 카지노 게임 컬렉션� an entire semester remotely. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s okay to be concerned. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s always reasonable to be concerned in the face of change and new challenges.

Perhaps you chose Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s for its reputation of high-quality education, and now you wonder whether you카지노 게임 컬렉션�ll get that. Perhaps you chose Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s for its history, community, and culture, and you wonder how that카지노 게임 컬렉션�s going to look when you카지노 게임 컬렉션�re at home behind a laptop screen.

Fortunately, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s has more than 130 years of experience answering questions just like this. Stories in the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Alumni Review document how Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s has helped shape distance learning in North America since the 1800s, all while maintaining its educational quality, culture, and community.

1878: Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s becomes the first university in Canada to offer 카지노 게임 컬렉션�extension courses카지노 게임 컬렉션�

In 1878, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 began offering extension courses to teachers who sought university training. These extramural extension courses were offered bythe Faculty of Arts, as it was then named.

At first, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s offered courses in the same way that the 카지노게임사이트 of London in England did. Students didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t have to reside on campus (a big deal at the time), nor did they have teachers. Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s essentially served as an examining body for the granting of degrees.Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s students demanded more, and before long, they began receiving teaching by correspondence. This was all done by letter, since radio hadn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t even been invented yet, and the home phone wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t become common for more than 30 years!

In 1889, the 카지노게임사이트 Senate passed a new regulation allowing home study by any student who was deterred from attending classes by distance or other obstacles. With the introduction of this regulation, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s earned the distinction of being the first North American university to offer 카지노 게임 컬렉션�distance education.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s efforts to 카지노 게임 컬렉션�bring university to the people카지노 게임 컬렉션� were criticized at the time by other institutions who held to the academic functions of the university, or who feared that institutions might lose their 카지노 게임 컬렉션�seclusion and dignity.카지노 게임 컬렉션� By the 1930s, however, nearly all those who originally criticized Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션�s actions had followed suit. ()

Extramural learning materials, 1938-39 ()

1945: 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Have you a short course in German, as we expect to need it about three months from now?카지노 게임 컬렉션�

The request above was just one of many that Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Department of Extensions received from service men and women overseas fighting in the Second World War. That letter came from a man serving in the Mediterranean area who expected he카지노 게임 컬렉션�d be in Germany soon. ()

In 1945, more than 750 service men and women were taking these 카지노 게임 컬렉션�extra mural카지노 게임 컬렉션� courses, including 24 prisoners of war (POWs) interned in Germany. Service people paid just $2 per course (versus $30 for civilians). There was no charge for POWs.

Arrangements to get the books to students overseas or in prison camps, as well as the collection of course work, were handled by the Canadian Legion (Think about that the next time you drive by a Legion Hall).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s was not as strict in the matter of time limits on exercises, as many of the service personnel found it hard to get leisure time and privacy for studying. Interestingly, commerce and Spanish courses were favourites. ()

1970카지노 게임 컬렉션�s: Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s pioneers one-to-one contact for distance learners

In 1971, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 made 카지노 게임 컬렉션�extension learning카지노 게임 컬렉션� the responsibility of the Faculty of Arts & Science. By the late 1970s, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s offered more than 40 correspondence courses to more than 1,200 students per year, entirely by mail. Exams were proctored at regional exam stations, and many students graduated without ever setting foot on campus. These students, hailing from as far as the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, took courses in topics such as ancient history, Canadian politics, and Russian literature.

The completion rate for Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s correspondence courses was exceptionally high, thanks in part to the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s focus on one-to-one contact. With email still decades away, students were given times when they could phone instructors long distance, free of charge. This was a big deal at the time. Further, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s provided distance students with lists of others registered in the same course so those living in the area could get together to discuss assignments 카지노 게임 컬렉션� a sort of pre-internet social network!  

The university library system also supported students by mailing out both books and recorded lectures to students. Sometimes students would ask for books that were unrelated to their course, and the library would do their best to fill those requests, too. ()

Interestingly, in 1953, 90 per cent of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s extra mural students were public school teachers working towards a BA. By the 1970s, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s distance learners included homemakers, seniors, prison inmates, military and diplomatic personnel, and even on-campus students unable to register for regular classes.()

Final thoughts

Today, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s delivers more than  140 distance courses to more than  4,000 students every year.

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s continues to push the envelope in terms of quality and accessibility. In fact, online learners cite our quality reputation as the number one reason they chose Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s for their distance learning.

From Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 Academics

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s has more than 130 years of experience delivering distance education, teachers looking to earn a BA military personnel serving overseas in the two world wars and now to regular students and working professionals today.

The world changes, but what has always made Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s distance learning special 카지노 게임 컬렉션� from the moment Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s first distance programs were introduced 카지노 게임 컬렉션� has not. That is a commitment to our students and to high-quality distance education.

So this fall, when you카지노 게임 컬렉션�re studying online through your laptop at home, reflect on the shared connection you have with that Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s student in Klondike Goldrush-era Yukon, writing their tests by oil lamp as they watched the long lines of prospectors march by. Or the soldier captured in the Second World War sitting in a POW camp waiting in anticipation for the Canadian Legionnaire to arrive with that unmistakable package 카지노 게임 컬렉션� their books and coursework, sent all the way from the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Library. And when they reflect on the next 100 years of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s history, they카지노 게임 컬렉션�ll remember you 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the students who didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t let a global pandemic keep them from their education.

This is Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s history. Of innovation through any situation, unrelenting in its mission to deliver education and support its students, and of uncompromising quality, no matter what.