Short Distance Learning (SDL)

There are 35 SCETV Distance Education Learning Centers (DELCs) located throughout the state. These centers were originally designed to enable school districts to tape programs or series for use at a later date. Today, these centers do much more.

SCETV's expanding technology is allowing the DELCs to become mini-studios that produce and transmit interactive television programs district-wide. This flexibility allows school districts to tailor programming to meet the needs of individual schools. More and more schools are using the technologies for live, interactive classes, meetings, staff development presentations, and student projects.

SHORT DISTANCE LEARNING (SDL)offers a way to share resources. For example, with the Satellite Educational Resources Consortium we've proven how distance learning works on a national level with a single instructor or team of teachers reaching thousands of students by satellite. Through SDL, a school can share a teacher's specialty with the entire district through live, low-cost, interactive televised classes.

Short Distance Learning Projects at the
Distance Education Learning Centers

• Aiken DELC:  staff development
• Anderson DELC
• Beaufort-Jasper DELC
• Berkeley County DELC: elementary Spanish
• Blackville DELC: History 101 & 102, English 101 & 102, Spanish 101 & 102 (all 6 courses contracted through USC-Salkehatchie); monthly Environmental Science program (statewide offering); bi-weekly adult education (statewide offering)Charleston DELC: AP government and AP economics; French II and French III; department head meetings; sexual harassment orientation; school governance; "No Barriers: Quest for '98"
• Chester-Union DELC: psychology 101 & 103, English 101 & 102 (all 4 courses contracted through USC-Union)
• Chesterfield DELC
• Colleton DELC: history 101 & history 102, English 101 & English 102 (contracted through USC-Salkehatchie)
• Dorchester 2 DELC
• Florence Darlington DELC: Math for the Technologies 1 (Tech Prep Teacher Institute); Insurance Benefits
• Georgetown County DELC: applied biology (Tech Prep Teacher Institute); school board meetingsGreenville DELC: Drama instruction; weather (elementary and middle schools); school news; ADEPT series;district info videos
• Greenwood DELC: student enrichment specials
• Horry County DELC: staff development
• Kershaw- Lee-DELC
• Lancaster DELC:  anthropology and philosophy (college-credit courses contracted with USC-Lancaster)
• Lexington 1, 3,& 4 DELC: basic math (adult education)
• Lexington 2 DELC
• Lexington/Richland 5 DELC
• Lower Pee Dee DELC
• Marion-Dillon DELC
• Marlboro DELC: advanced math for middle schools; advanced English for middle schools
• Oconee DELC: computer training; State insurance updates
• Orangeburg Calhoun DELC
• Pickens DELC
• Richland 1 DELC: media specialists meetings
• Richland 2 DELC
• Rock Hill DELC: applied biology (Tech Prep Teacher Institute); adult education; principals' meetings; ADEPT training
• Spartanburg DELC
• Sumter DELC
• Tri-County DELC (Lake City): chemistry for the technologies and physics for the technologies (Tech Prep Teacher Institutes)
• Williamsburg DELC
• York 1,2,4 DELC computer training; Superintendent's Back-to-School Orientation

Many DELCs offer special programs on topics such as the environment and ecology, government and civic affairs, customs and cultures of other countries, local science fairs, job skills and school-to-work initiatives, character education, school news programs and many more.

Visit the Network Technical Services web site for a complete listing of the DELCs with personnel names, addresses, phone, and fax numbers.

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For more information, contact:

Terry Pound, Consultant, K12 School Services:
Voice: (800) 277-3245
Fax: (803) 737-3505
E-mail: pound@scetv.org