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Continuing education, in its most general definition, is education intended for adult learners, especially for those beyond traditional undergraduate college or university age. Frequently, in the United States, it can involve enrollment in college/university credit-granting courses, often by students enrolled part-time, and often offered through a division or school of continuing education of a college/university. Also frequently in the US, it can mean enrollment in non-credit-granting courses, often taken for personal, non-vocational enrichment (although many non-credit courses can also have a vocational function). Also, in the US, many such non-credit courses are offered by community colleges. Community colleges and some other non- baccalaureate institutions may also offer remedial programs, such as basic literacy, literacy improvement, English language skills, and preparation for a high school General Equivalency Diploma (GED).

The University of Wisconsin, in 1904, was the first academic institution in the US to offer what today would be considered an identifiable continuing education program. In 1969, Empire State College, a unit of the State University of New York, was the first institution in the US to exclusively focus on providing higher education to adult learners.

The method of delivery of continuing education can include traditional types of classroom lectures and laboratories. However, much continuing education makes heavy use of distance learning, which not only includes independent study, but which can include videotapeVideotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. The first practical professional videotape machines were the Quad machines introduced by Ampex in the United States in 1956. Quad empd/ CD-ROMThe CD-ROM (an abbreviation for " Compact Disc Read-Only Memory" ( ROM) ) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. A CD-ROM is a flat, plastic disc wit material, broadcast programmingNote: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients ("listeners" or "viewers") that belong to a large group. This group may be the public in general, or, and online/ InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu delivery. In addition to independent study, the use of conference-type group study, which can include study networks (which can, in many instances, meet together online) as well as different types of seminars/workshops, can be used to facilitate learning. A combination of traditional, distance, and conference-type study, or two of these three types, may be used for a particular continuing education course or program.

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Continuing educationContinuing education in its most general definition, is education intended for adult learners, especially for those beyond traditional undergraduate college or university age. Frequently, in the United States, it can involve enrollment in college/universi

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