Scott McLean
Director of Continuing Education
University of Calgary

1. How does the University of Calgary define non-traditional education differently?

There are some universities in Canada for whom continuing education really represents the provision of degree and for-credit studies by means other than traditional daytime, on-campus, face-to-face instruction. Some universities’ continuing education operations are largely about either evening programs, or online—but the courses are very similar in their content to the normal or traditional classes, the difference is in their format or their scheduling.

…The students in continuing education programs are more likely to be part-time students.

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