Access

Access is a site providing classroom course's and teacher via technology. Access stands for (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide). It provides high students options to take advance placement courses online. Gov. Bob Riley and State Superintendent of Education, Dr. Joseph B. Morton initiated ACCESS to plan new and innovative ways that distance learning options can provide access to high quality instruction and coursework not currently available to high school students in Alabama. It provides a technical infrastructure to deliver pedagogically sound courses via the Internet and a catalogue of approved Internet-based courses using the latest interactive instructional models. It blends online/Internet-based coursework with Alabama certified teachers as E-teachers from delivery school sites to receive school sites that otherwise would not have an Alabama certified teacher to instruct the course. Access provides to advanced diploma courses, provides to additional course offerings, provides to advanced placement or dual enrollment courses, provide to remediation and supplemental resources, Leverage existing resources and distance learning offerings, and provide teachers with additional multimedia and technology tools to enhance instruction. I feel the program access was a brilliant idea to advance learning in a broad manner.