What is Distance Education?
Distance education, or distance learning, is instruction that is delivered to a student who studies “remotely”, not in the traditional on-campus college classroom. UF has provided distance education since 1919, through traditional correspondence study, which was print-based. Now, distance education includes online courses with the entire instruction internet-based. Distance Education with the University of Florida (UF) involves enrolling and participating in fully-accredited college courses or professional certification courses either through correspondence (mail, fax or web-based correspondence) or online. Both undergraduate and graduate courses are offered and are fully-accredited by the Commission on College of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
