Whois & Analysis for elgin.edu

Elgin Community College is a post-secondary educational institution which awards Associate of Arts degrees.

It was founded in 1949 as part of Elgin Area School District U46.

Community College District 509 was formed 17 years later in 1966, a year after Illinois legislators created the Illinois Community College System.

Most of the District is in Kane County with portions in DeKalb, Cook, McHenry, and DuPage.

The District serves 300,000 people, 11,000 businesses, four public school districts, and 15 high schools.

Elgin is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Illinois.

Located roughly northwest of Chicago, it lies along the Fox River.

As of 2013, the city had a total population of 110,145, making it the eighth-largest city in Illinois.

Distance education or distance learning is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school.

Traditionally this usually involved correspondence courses wherein the student corresponded with the school via post.

Today it involves online education.

Courses that are conducted (51 percent or more) are either hybrid, blended or 100% whole instruction.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), offering large-scale interactive participation and open access through the World Wide Web or other network technologies, are recent developments in distance education.

A number of other terms (distributed learning, e-learning, online learning, etc) are used roughly synonymously with distance education.

Adult education is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self–educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.

It can mean any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling, encompassing basic literacy to personal fulfillment as a lifelong learner.

Erie Community College is a two-year community college that is part of the 64-campus State University of New York (SUNY) system, and serves Erie County and the surrounding communities of western New York.