Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, & Students Statewide

ACCESS is an online learning program designed to give students equal opportunities throughout the state of Alabama. All schools are required to offer advanced diplomas for their students. ACCESS gives students the ability to take advanced classes required for this diploma no matter what school they attend.It also offers other courses and electives not offered at all schools. ACCESS has web-based learning and also uses videoconferencing. Video Conferencing offers the students the ability to see the teacher and interact with him/her along with other students from different schools.

With ACCESS students have more responsibility for their own education. Students take the course at school during regular hours. It also offers lab simulations that the student can use multiple times, changing the variables and getting different outcomes, in a relatively short time frame. It also allows students to work at their own pace. Different learning styles are supported through ACCESS improving the students learning. I believe this a vital tool in educational equality, the only pitfall is that not everyone knows about it and therefore does not have access to it.