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In July 2012, SoLAcc merged with the Acadiana Technical Colleges, thereby making SoLAcc a comprehensive community college with campuses in eight parishes. It is one of the largest community colleges in Louisiana with more than 7,000 students enrolled. SoLAcc awards associate degrees, transfer degrees, technical diplomas, and certifications.
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, including faculty members, administrators, trainers, instructional designers, other learning professionals, educational institutions, professional societies, and corporate enterprises.
Undergraduate academic majors or degree programs are generally administered by departments, although there may also be interdisciplinary committees for subjects which touch more than one department. [citation needed] Per Umbrach and Porter (2002), several aspects of academic departments can affect the performance of students within them.
Application software is any computer program that is intended for end-user use – not operating, administering or programming the computer. An application (app, application program, software application) is any program that can be categorized as application software.
The arrival of the personal computer, with the Altair 8800 in 1975, changed the field of software in general, with specific implications for educational software. Whereas users prior to 1975 were dependent upon university or government owned mainframe computers with timesharing, users after this shift could create and use software for computers in homes and schools, computers available for ...
By 2012, the OUAC had processed more than 14 million applications, submitted by more than 4.5 million applicants. Starting in 1975, the OUAC began processing applications to professional programs, including medicine (1975), teacher education (1979), law (1997) and rehabilitation sciences (2000). Each program has its own application service.
This enables an application to be run on different hardware without needing to be rewritten. [12] Application software runs on top of the operating system and uses the computer's resources to perform a task. [13] There are many different types of application software because the range of tasks that can be performed with modern computers is so ...
A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. [1] [2] Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed for the server to dynamically build a response to the request, in contrast to static web pages. [3] Web applications are commonly distributed via a web server ...