Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is a Christian institution of higher education that was founded by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886.

Since its founding, MBI's main campus has been located in the Near North Side of Chicago.

Moody also operates an undergraduate campus in Spokane, Washington, and a graduate campus in Plymouth, MI.

Plymouth Township, officially the Charter Township of Plymouth, is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

The population was 27,524 at the 2010 census.

The City of Plymouth is located within the township but is administratively autonomous.

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.

Claverack College, also known as Washington Seminary and Hudson River Institute, was a coeducational boarding school in Claverack, New York, United States.

It was in operation from 1779 until 1902.

Chicago (or), officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States.

With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and the Midwestern United States.

It is the county seat of Cook County.

The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S.