Digital studies at Northcentral Technical College
“Healthcare education is what we do. Online learning is how we do it. Together with Philips’ radiography and sonography courses, our ability to reach a broader audience is huge.”
- Marianne Rhodes, Relationship Manager
A brand new $20 million dollar Health Sciences Center graces the campus of Wausau Wisconsin’s Northcentral Technical College (NTC). “We decided when this was built that we would make the Center a hybrid learning facility,” says Marianne Rhodes, Relationship Manager at Northcentral. Key to the Center’s success is inclusion of the Online Learning Center as the primary web-based continuing educational vehicle.
Rhodes adds, “Our job was to determine the most effective delivery format available. One of the key reasons the OLC was selected was because of its flexibility. Our professional educators find creating content for the OLC simple and straightforward. Our classroom materials can be prepared for correlative segments on the web, and for us that means our content can go a lot further.”
NTC programs cater not only to undergraduates but to working professionals as well. And Rhodes sees how the digital environment is presenting new avenues of growth. “We suddenly find we are doing more international education via the OLC. Now our online content can reach imaging professionals worldwide.”
[Published: 2006-11-14]