An account on the CVC site is not necessary for students wishing to register for courses in our catalog. Registering a CVC account only gives you some extra convenience on the CVC site itself.
Currently, here are the benefits of registering a CVC account:
You can easily submit articles to the “Articles & Opinions” section of the [...]
This website is maintained by the California Virtual Campus Professional Development Center. The site was originally developed by Tony Sotos and Joe Georges at El Camino College and was created under the auspices of the Chancellor’s Office for the California Community Colleges. It was later moved to Butte College and redesigned by David Hammond. The [...]
Can I get a degree from the California Virtual Campus?
Students are able to earn degrees from many of the participating CVC campuses. CVC itself confers no degrees or certificates and, instead, serves as a gateway to technology-mediated distance learning courses and programs from California institutions.
How can I find the courses I want in the California [...]
“After more than fifteen years of teaching, Rebekah Nathan, a professor of anthropology at a large state university, realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students. Fewer and fewer participated in class discussion, tackled the assigned reading, or came to discuss problems during office hours. And she realized from conversations [...]
“Net Gen students clearly perceive the open space of the World Wide Web as their information universe. This is in opposition to the worldview of librarians and many faculty, who perceive the library as the locus of information relevant to academic work. Students usually approach their research without regard to the library’s structure or the [...]
"UTSA entered a new age of computing power nearly a year ago when the Main Building opened at the 1604 Campus and the first wireless hot spot became available to students, faculty and staff members with wireless-capable PCs. Hot spots are areas where a broadcast signal provides a connection to a computer network without a [...]
"Stanford University’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) offers an online master of science in computational and mathematical engineering (CME) in its fall 2005 catalog.
Studying from home, students gain access to Stanford research using computer simulation tools for designing jet engines, exploring surgical strategies, understanding of protein folding in health and disease, and [...]
“There are all kinds of information disasters. Some are caused by wrong information. Some are caused by outdated information. For instance, many years ago a manufacturing company designed and built a new product based on a part that was no longer manufactured. They had looked in an old parts catalog.
Missing or incomplete information plagues many [...]
We wanted to share a message sent by a student to our cybercounselor, who responds for us to inquiries about programs and courses in the CVC catalog. This student had asked about getting a degree in Psychology online. She then sent the following note:
Thanks so much, it took me awhile to figure out the function [...]
When midyear reductions in the State’s budget were adopted by the Legislature and approved by the Governor two weeks ago, they included a deletion of $2.9 million for the California Virtual Campus during 2003-04. That amount had been appropriated by the Legislature last August. We planned to begin using it this summer. But it is [...]