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About IWU Online Learning

Affordable Classes

Attending IWU Online costs up to 50% less then competing online universities.

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IWUOnline offers comprehensive, fully-accredited educational programs at the Associate, Bachelor, and Graduate degree levels, completely online. We understand the challenges facing working students, and we've designed our programs around your needs-whether you're looking to finish your degree or to obtain a specialized degree and embark on a new career.

How It Works

IWU's online programs deliver courses via the Internet using a state-of-the-art learning management system (LMS) powered by Blackboard™, the leading provider of learning management software. When students logon to the Blackboard™ interface, they will see their current and prior courses listed. Selecting a course takes just a click of the mouse. Each course is entirely self-contained, with an easy-to-follow navigation system of clearly-labeled buttons and links that provide access to the course syllabus, workshop-by-workshop explanations of all assignments, online discussion forums, a team project area, an assignment handler for submitting completed coursework, faculty information, and links to the Off-Campus Library Service (OCLS), technical support, student services, and a variety of other helpful information.

What if I've never used Blackboard™ before?

The set up is easy. Students receive complete, detailed instructions along with their Username and Password a few days before the first course begins. Once logged in, the syllabus and assignments contain complete instructions. Our friendly, proactive technical support team guides students through any technical problems they may encounter, and the faculty are ready and willing to provide any needed clarification and guidance with assignments.

Each program has either an orientation workshop or devotes part of its first course to acclimating students to the Blackboard™ LMS and the framework of online courses. Our faculty, staff, and technical support team are all sensitive to "first course jitters" and stand ready to assist, if needed. Students universally report that they settle into a comfortable routine after the first few weeks of their programs.

Online Courseroom

IWU's Blackboard™ learning management system provides students with a robust "online courseroom" in which to interact with faculty and fellow working professionals on a broad range of academic issues. While the specific structure of the online courseroom can vary slightly by degree program, they all share a number of basic features and functions:

Course Material: This section contains the course syllabus, workshop-by-workshop explanations of all assignments and activities, and information about the faculty member facilitating the course.
Discussion Forums: In this section students and faculty participate in asynchronous discussions of key course topics.
Project Teams: Some courses utilize team projects to develop communication, collaboration, and leadership skills and to allow students to produce comprehensive projects that exceed the ability of an individual to produce in the timeframe of a single course. The Project Teams areas provide a user-friendly combination of asynchronous discussion forums, synchronous live chat interface, whiteboard collaborative software, and file exchange server to facilitate and coordinate team interaction.
Assignment Manager: This serves as the facilitator's online inbox and outbox, where students submit their completed assignments and receive them back with feedback and grading. Each student has access only to his or her own assignments and feedback for complete privacy.
Gradebook: The online gradebook shows each student the grades he or she has received on all assignments, so students know where they stand in the course at all times. As with the Assignment Manager, complete privacy is maintained, so that students can only view their own grades.
Student Support: Links to the Off-Campus Library Services, Student Services Office, Technical Support, Student FAQ, and numerous other services are provided in each online courseroom.

With these online resources all conveniently located within each online courseroom, students are literally only a mouse-click away from their classmates, faculty, and university administrators. Everything students need - whether academic, technical support, or student services - is kept at their fingertips in the online courseroom.

With this combination of communication and learning technologies, Online students enjoy a rich, vibrant educational experience that connects them with other highly motivated working professionals and knowledgeable, experienced practitioner faculty. Past students routinely comment on the surprisingly strong bond that develops with their classmates and faculty in the online courseroom.

IWU Online Computer Requirements

You don't need any special equipment or advanced technology to enroll with IWU's distance learning degree programs. All you need is a computer with Internet access and basic office applications.

You don't have to be a computer whiz either. You'll be working on a simple distance learning website that is a virtual classroom. Workshops, seminars, classroom discussions, class work submissions, and communications with your instructors all happen in one place. Even if you do have a question, IWU offers a technical support staff that specializes in distance learning to help you in the event you have trouble. You need never worry about where to find answers to your questions; we have them ready for you. To contact technical support, call 1-877-489-5678.

The minimum hardware and software requirements for IWU's distance learning degree programs are:

Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)*
700 MHz CPU
256 MB RAM
20 GB Hard Drive
CD-ROM (DVD Drive recommended)
Sound card and speakers
1024x768 resolution monitor
Internet access with 56K modem (Broadband recommended)
Email account
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Netscape 7.1 or Firefox 1.0.x

Accreditation Statement

Indiana Wesleyan University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission* and a member of the North Central Association.

*Higher Learning Commission: http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/ or call 312-263-0456

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