Welcome to ADEC

ADEC
A Consortium for Quality Distance Education

In 1862, it was a radical idea—higher education based on a practical curriculum and open to anyone, not just those preparing for careers in medicine or law. Education focused on information applicable to real life economic needs. The Land-Grant Act changed our world forever.

Today, we are doing it again. The global Land-Grant in the digital age, that's what ADEC is all about.

ADEC is a non-profit distance education consortium. Owned and operated by 50 state universities and land-grant colleges, ADEC members provide high quality, economical distance education programs and services through the latest and most appropriate information technologies.

ADEC member programming draws on the competitive advantages Land-Grant universities have in:

Food and Agriculture
Children, Youth and Families
Community/Economic Development
Distance Education & Technology
Environment and Natural Resources
Nutrition and Health

THE NEED
Combining education and technology creates a totally new universe--available to all.

Lifelong learning is now a reality for most Americans:

• Eighty percent of U.S. adults say getting additional training and/or education is important for them to be successful in their work.
• Eighty-one percent have received some kind of job-related training or education in the last three years.
• People most likely to seek additional education have relatively greater access to home and workplace computers.

THE SOLUTION
Maximizing reach, scope, and potential through distance education.

ADEC members provide distance education that improves effectiveness in your life, on your job and at school--and it is now available when and where you need it most.

ADEC serves diverse audiences with appropriate combinations of technologies including:

• 39 satellite uplinks
• More than 2,000 downlinks
• Satellite programming for Ku and C-band reception
• The Internet and World Wide Web (WWW)
• Digital television
• Audio conferencing

These value-added communications tools help ADEC members interact with learners across the globe. These are the tools of the virtual organization. ADEC is the prototype.

THE RESULTS
Efficiency, effectiveness, progress, learning.

Combining content expertise and research base with communication and instructional design capacity, ADEC creates access to learning opportunities any time or any place.

ADEC member programs can be found in:

K-12 Schools
Community Colleges
Graduate Programs
Community Education
Social Service Agencies
Undergraduate Classes
Businesses
Corporate Training

Through these important conduits, ADEC reaches consumers, producers, workers, or students when and where they need or want to learn--locally or globally.

PARTNERSHIPS
Strong alliances, improved opportunity

The power of ADEC is enhanced through exciting and innovative partnerships, which provide collaboration and synergy benefiting all partners, especially the learners.

Among ADEC partners are:

The National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA)
The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII)
EDUCOM
Sigma Xi
The National Science Foundation

ADEC is associated with several other alliances--public, private and non-profit--and government organizations and agencies, creating linkages among public higher education, publishers, telecommunication providers and distance education product developers.

THE FUTURE
Vision, technology, education

ADEC is a leader in providing and creating access to customer-driven distance education. Through its member universities, ADEC has a tremendous competitive advantage with deep reservoirs of expertise, quality subject matter, and a tremendous technology infrastructure locally to globally through relationships and partnerships unparalleled in the world.

Through the Land-Grant traditions of 1862, 1890, and 1994, higher education has continued its evolution. ADEC continues that evolution and revolution of serving learners by enhancing education through technology, accessibility and collaboration.

TO LEARN MORE

The ADEC consortium, as an incorporated, non-profit body of collaborators, works proactively through its Board, Program Panel, Principal Contact Officers on every member campus.

The ADEC home page on the World Wide Web can be found at http://www.adec.edu. It provides information, on-line resources, trends, links, and a searchable database.

E-mail ADEC at: jpoley@unl.edu or contact a Principal Contact Officer at any of our member institutions

Contact ADEC at:
Dr. Janet Poley, ADEC President
Box 830952
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68583-0952
Telephone (402) 472-7000
Fax (402) 472-9060