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Distance Education Orientation

Blue Mountain Overlook, Northeast Oregon
Patricia A. Neal

First Stage of the Trail: Understanding the Lay of the Land

Before we head out on our trek to explore distance education offerings at EOU, we need to stand on a ridge and survey the landscape. Below us stretches the panorama of an academic world, with its own ecology, shifts in the weather, and changes in the landscape as we go forward.

How do things work in this new place? What hurdles need to be cleared and what unexpected pleasures await with each twist of the trail?

This Orientation is the first of many resources from which you will learn on your trek through a degree program at EOU. Later, you will have an instructor for degree planning, an adviser who will help you chart your course every step of the way, faculty who will guide you through each stage of your learning, and fellow students with whom you may swap stories, issue warnings, and offer encouragement. Your best resource will be your own intuition and judgment, combined with the highest priorities you set for yourself.

As you study the "lay of the land," in order to move forward on the trail at a good pace, you need to understand your responsibilities by looking at the Student Code of Conduct.  

Moving along, we can now see the "land's" general conditions and the limits of the possible. For that purpose, let's take a close look at EOU's graduation requirements, a set of conditions that must be understood in order for you to reach your degree destination.