LEEP

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For a variety of reasons, students who want to attend our school are not always able to relocate to campus. We extend our program to them, and widen our sense of community, through our online scheduling option called LEEP. Via this program, candidates without on-campus access to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are able to complete our ALA-accredited Master of Science degree (MS) or Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS).

Our LEEP scheduling option is unique among schools of library and information science, and it provides significant advantages in a field increasingly involved in organizing and using electronic information. Simply put, our nationally recognized faculty combine very brief periods of on-campus instruction with Internet instruction and independent learning. Students complete the overwhelming majority of course work at the site they choose--usually their home or office--not a university satellite site. Our acknowledged quality is undiminished: In 1998, the ALA reaccredited our entire master's program, including LEEP in the positive, overall assessment.

We use advanced technologies that provide live, Web-based instruction: students hear faculty as they speak; they see slides and other graphics, and hear music and audio clips, as the professor discusses them; they "chat" with the professor and each other. And our LEEP staff continues to test and refine new technology, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of this exciting educational experience.

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• (2004) Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. Caroline Haythornthwaite