ACCESS

ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, & Students Statewide. This allows students of rural low-income schools to take additional courses via the Internet in order to receive a more advanced education and diploma. This vision of ACCESS is to provide high quality instruction to students through distant learning. The State of Alabama has provided the technology to these schools, which allow the students to have access to the technology required. It offers a blended learning setting with both web-based and videoconferencing. Through this technology students have the opportunity to take more advanced course electives, which therefore prepare them for higher education. It also allows students the ability to review a lesson that they might not completely understand the first time. The review allows them to understand the content of the lesson more clearly.

ACCESS is a great way for students to expand their knowledge. This allows them to not only take advantage of more course electives, but also familiarize themselves with the use of the computer and web technology. Students learn to have more responsibility, since progress is solely at their fingertips. They have a sense of control.