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The Southern Regional Electronic Campus (SREC) will help students find and enroll in high quality courses at colleges and universities across the Southern Regional Education Board states.   Students will be able to complete most of the coursework electronically and may not need to leave their hometowns or campuses.  By using the SREB Electronic Campus website, students will be able to obtain information about each course and will know the standards that the colleges and universities have pledged to meet for these distance learning courses. Students interested in enrolling in a course will be able through the Electronic Campus to easily link with the college or university offering the course.

The Principles of Good Practice*, the cornerstone of the electronic marketplace, were developed to assure students about the quality of courses and programs at the Electronic Campus.  The Principles draw upon the work of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education and other organizations.  All courses and programs to be listed in the Electronic Campus have been reviewed against the Principles of Good Practice by the offering colleges or universities and coordinated through the state higher education agency.

The Southern Regional Electronic Campus, a project of the SREB's Educational Technology Cooperative, began development in the summer of 1996.  The goal of the Electronic Campus is to provide students with the central point of reference, giving students easier access to quality programs and courses.  A first step was to conduct a survey.  The report, SREB State Regulations as They Apply to Distance Learning, provides an analysis of state laws and regulations related to distance learning.  The major finding was "...There appear to be no significant regulatory considerations that would halt the development of such a regional approach."  Thus, in January 1998, the Electronic Campus launched a marketplace of courses offered by colleges and universities in SREB states.

*Portions are from the statement Principles of Good Practice for Electronically Offered Academic Degree and Certificate Programs, Western Cooperative for Education Telecommunications, Denver, Colorado, 1996.