Are you ready to take a college course online? My name is Diana and I'm here today to show you what it's all about. The center for distance learning at SUNY Empire State College offers high quality courses available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at your finger tips. If you have internet access and are ready to work for your degree, we have hundreds of courses, across all areas of study, including business, computer science, criminal justice, art, health, education, and more. With distance learning courses, there are no pre-scheduled class times. You purchase course materials, participate in online discussions with peers and instructors and work independently to complete your assignments within your weekly schedule. Thousands of students, many from across the country and around the world have earned their degree online from SUNY Empire State College. The start of your online education journey is just a few clicks away. Courses are organized in a way that makes it easy for you to find what you need. As an example, let's look at the course, Introductory Chinese. Required course materials may include textbooks, videos, scholarly articles or online resources. The material in each course, module or unit, is previewed in an overview page. You may also find optional interactive presentations, that harness web tools to accommodate a variety of learning styles. User friendly tools embedded in the courses, immerse you in the online learning environment. Discussion is integral to online courses whether it's entered on focused questions or in an open student forum. Ice breaker discussions allow students to get to know each other when the course first begins. Course participation, it's easy. It's just like posting to Facebook or sending an email. You type and then click the Submit. Submitting assignments equally as easy. Attach your file and click it to upload. Instructor announcements, online office hours, course mail and live chats bridge the gap to remove the distance from your learning. Finally, online chat sessions allow students to communicate one on one and provide immediate access to the school's librarians. In some of our courses, you may also have access to a tutor. For example, language courses feature native speakers to assist you one on one with web conferencing. Let's say hello to Laura. >> Ni hao, that's how you say hello in Chinese. >> As you can see, our courses are convenient. Access them when it works for your schedule, or even from your mobile device. >> And of course, helpful resources are always at hand, they're knowledge-based articles and video tutorials. And remember, the help desk only a phone call away. During your academic journey with the college, you can build an ePortfolio to showcase your work in the future. >> In the end, online learning can be challenging, convenient and fun.