Are you ready?

We offer online courses in the various Campus Saint-Jean fields of study. With our online courses, you'll have the flexibility to acquire the skills you need from wherever you are, despite your schedule being split between family and professional responsibilities.

You'll benefit from state-of-the-art learning technology, teaching materials suited to your learning style and, above all, timely and flexible supervision.

Online teaching model

Our online teaching model has been developed and adapted to meet the specific needs of our students. It is a hybrid model comprising asynchronous online teaching (eClass) and synchronous teaching (virtual classes).

Contact us

distance@ualberta.ca
780-465-8773
Room 2-66, Pavillon McMahon

Lise Niyuhire, MIS, Master Comm&IT
Senior Officer, Innovation & Technologie
niyuhire@ualberta.ca

Hugues Kouadou
IT User Support Team Lead
kouadou@ualberta.ca

Johny Djeupmeni
IT Assistant
djeupmen@ualberta.ca

Asynchronous

  • Time-shifted teaching
  • Classes are recorded and posted on eClass
  • Student-teacher and student-to-student interactions are off-line via e-mail or online discussion forums
  • No face-to-face interaction required
  • Students can take the course at their own speed, as long as they complete the required work in the given time.

Synchronous

  • Real-time teaching
  • Classes are broadcast in a meeting using videoconferencing software (Zoom)
  • Real-time student-teacher interaction using chat rooms, in addition to e-mail and discussion forum exchanges
  • Students follow the course at the teacher's pace.