Whois & Analysis for ntc.edu

Northcentral Technical College (also NTC) is a technical (community) college in Wausau, Wisconsin, United States.

The district of the college includes all of, or portions of, Marathon, Lincoln, Taylor, Price, Langlade, Menominee, Clark, Portage, Shawano and Waupaca counties.

The main campus is located in Wausau.

There are regional centers in Antigo, Medford, Merrill, Phillips, Spencer and Wittenberg.

It is a member of the 16 schools in the Wisconsin Technical College System.

An associate degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting two years.

It is considered to be greater level of education than a high school diploma or GED.

Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met.

If standards are met, accredited status is granted by the appropriate agency.

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.

A diploma (from Greek δίπλωµα díplōma, meaning "folded paper") is a or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a college or university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study, or (US) recording that an academic degree has been awarded.

In some countries, e.g. the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma also refers to an academic award (e.g. diploma of higher education, graduate diploma, postgraduate diploma).

Historically, it can also refer to a charter or official document, thus diplomatic, diplomat and diplomacy via the Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus.