What is
VCT and how does it work?
The
Virtual College of Texas (VCT) is a collaborative of
Texas’ fifty community college districts and the Texas
State Technical College System. It functions as a
service of the Texas Association of Community Colleges.
Through VCT, students may take courses from colleges
anywhere in Texas while getting support services from a
local college.
To take
a course from a remote (provider) college, a student
enrolls at a local (host) community or technical
college. The host college supports the student with a
full slate of student services, including advisement and
counseling, financial aid, and learning resources. The
host college receives the student’s tuition, fees, and
the state’s reimbursement for the enrollment. This
college also awards credit for the course and
transcripts it.
The
provider college provides course instruction.
Assignments, tests, and grades are administered by one
of its instructors. For this instructional service, the
host college pays the provider college an “instructional
lease fee”, as specified in an agreement between the two
colleges. This is not an additional fee for the
student.
This
arrangement between local (host) and remote (provider)
colleges makes it possible for VCT member colleges to
leverage their distance learning resources – including
faculty, courses, support services, and technology – to
benefit students throughout Texas no matter where they
live or where instruction originates.
Kilgore College Distance Education & VCT
Hosted Courses
VCT hosted courses follow the general
academic policies of Kilgore College as published in the
Kilgore College catalog and the Course Schedule for the
appropriate semester. (Online at:
http://www.kilgore.edu/sitemap.asp?Landing=412)
All VCT course requests are subject to approval. Kilgore College’s VCT approval
process for requires that each course requested by a student
be approved by the appropriate department chair and in
their absence, the divisional dean. Provider instructor
contact and course materials information is provided to
the College so that syllabus, course objectives and
outcomes may be reviewed before approval. For example,
the English department chair insures that composition
courses require a research paper. The department chair
will also check that the student has appropriate
placement scores and that pre-requisites have been met.
Kilgore
College students or advisors may initiate requests for a
specific distance learning course that is not listed in
our distance learning schedule by locating it in the VCT
course catalog located on the VCT website:
www.vct.org.
There
are several stipulations:
1.
The
course must be listed in the Academic Course Guide
Manual (ACGM), Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM)
and attached to an approved program at the college at
least as an elective, or on both college’s approved
course inventory.
2.
The
dean or department chair at KC must approve the course.
Course reservations may be declined when the provider
college instructor lacks the proper credentials; the
provider's course does not have student learning
outcomes and/or methods of achieving these outcomes that
are equivalent to the same course at Kilgore College as
determined by the department chair; the student lacks
adequate preparation; the lease fee charged by the
provider college is excessive (generally, a lease fee is
considered excessive when it is more than 10% above
Kilgore College's average in-district and
out-of-district tuition for the course credit hours; or
space is available in a distance education course at
Kilgore College.
3.
A
reservation transaction must be completed to confirm
that the
provider college agrees to provide instruction to the
student and
that space is available in the class.
To view
courses and availability, visit the VCT website at:
www.vct.org
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