Online Learning
Aiken Technical College offers a number of classes in a variety of online formats from completion of degrees entirely online to using online resources to supplement traditional classes.
Online Courses
Online students participate in courses through the internet either with their home computers or with computers in labs on the ATC campus at times most convenient to their schedules. Courses usually begin during the first week of the term and end during the last week of the term. Assignments are due periodically, just as they are in traditional courses. While online courses require no on-campus meetings, attendance policies are strictly followed. Students must take proctored final exams, either at the ATC Test Center or using ATC's online proctoring software.
Hybrid Courses
Hybrid courses combine classroom instruction with the features of online courses. Students usually complete 50 percent of their course work via face-to-face course meetings and 50 percent online using the internet.
Web Enhanced Courses
Many instructors teaching traditional face-to-face courses supplement them by using the College Learning Management System (Blackboard) or web pages to make additional materials available to students outside of class via the internet. The course itself is delivered in a traditional face-to-face meeting time or number of meetings.
Online Degrees
Aiken Technical College offers the option to complete the Associate of Arts degree entirely online! Click on the degree title below for a complete list of course requirements.
State Authorization for Distance Learning Programs and Students
All states in the U.S. require post-secondary educational institutions to be legally authorized to provide post-secondary educational instruction in their states. Many of these state laws and regulations also apply to online, distance, and correspondence educational instruction offered in that state. As such, Aiken Technical College and its distance learning program must be authorized in certain states prior to offering those courses or programs to students residing in those states. The purpose of this policy is to create a process for complying with any state authorization requirements applicable to Aiken Technical College’s distance learning program. ATC participates in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) through the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) and can offer classes to students in the member states of SREB. This includes all states, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with the exception of California.