The Virtual Learning Center School of Distance Online Education
Distance education begins here
The Virtual Learning Center (VLC) offers a wide variety of online distance education courses for medical support: Medical Transcription, Medical Coding, Medical Billing, Medical Terminology, as well as Digital Photography and Gift Basket Design and Marketing.
Distance education lets you set your own schedule. You decide when and where you want to study, and with all Virtual Learning Center online correspondence courses, you have as much time as you want to complete your course. All VLC online distance educational courses are presented in an easy-to-use online method of instruction. We have a staff of instructors who can offer students the benefits of firsthand experience in their fields.
Explore our online course descriptions and choose the one that's right for you.
Distance education courses at the VLC let you study anywhere.
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VLC exclusive Video instruction The VLC is the only online distance education school that includes terminology instruction with its transcription, billing and coding courses using interactive video instruction. We decided to write and produce this series of sixteen 30-minute videos because we believe the best way to excel in any of the medical support professions is to have extensive knowledge of medical terminology along with transcription, billing and/or coding skills. We know the most effective way to learn the language of medicine is to hear it, see it, and write it with the guidance of a narrator. Each video includes a workbook to complete the learning process. Here at the VLC, we've gone the extra mile to help you achieve success when testing with potential employers. |
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With no medical background necessary, you can learn to transcribe doctors' dictation into documents with the VLC's online medical transcription training course.
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Medical Coding
Medical coding was developed as a universal language for the medical profession to ensure proper financial reimbursement from insurance companies and government agencies. Numerical codes provide the clarity that insurance firms need to keep paperwork and payments flowing. Learning this numeric language puts a new world of employment possibilities at your fingertips.
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Medical Billing
Medical billers are responsible for completing a wide variety of forms to ensure transactions between healthcare insurance plans and their recipients run smoothly.
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Medical Terminology
This certificate granting course is for anyone planning on entering the medical-support field, anyone who needs to refresh their medical vocabulary, and for all of those looking to advance their career in this area.
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Medical Records Specialist
Our most comprehensive certificate-granting course offers medical transcription, coding and billing. It maximizes job opportunities, giving graduates the option of working at a healthcare facility or working from home in all three areas.
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Medical Records & Health information Technician
Learn medical billing and coding online and become a Medical records and health information technician
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This course provides practical assistance with both business and photographic fundamentals in preparation for establishing a full or part-time photography business. A variety of projects in this digital photography course online give the student practice in business planning, photographic techniques, lighting styles, and effective sales and marketing campaigns.
A creative flair and some business sense will start you off nicely in this gift basket business opportunity training course
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VLC students get the advantage of having access to an extensive database dedicated to at-home employment.
Most courses are taught using the Mentoring Interactive Modular Education (M.I.M.E.) method of instruction. M.I.M.E. has been used successfully for home training for the past seven years. The availability of instructors, interactive chat rooms, and modular delivery of information makes online learning as easy as possible. |
VLC Faculties
The VLC is continually expanding its offerings. As we observed the growing popularity of work from home jobs over the
past couple of years, we began to branch out to meet demand in a variety of faculties.
Health Sciences
For years, our selection of health science courses has been the flagship of our course catalog. Excellent courses in medical transcription, billing, coding, and terminology are available. The VLC is committed to maintaining the quality of its medical courses with regular updates.
Business
Whether you want to work for a company from home, or set up your own at-home business, the VLC can help you get started with one of its business courses. Choose the one that suits you best: digital photography or gift basket design and marketing. Developed by experts in their area, these courses can help put you on the path to successfully working for yourself.
Health Sciences
For years, our selection of health science courses has been the flagship of our course catalog. Excellent courses in medical transcription, billing, coding, and terminology are available. The VLC is committed to maintaining the quality of its medical courses with regular updates.
Business
Whether you want to work for a company from home, or set up your own at-home business, the VLC can help you get started with one of its business courses. Choose the one that suits you best: digital photography or gift basket design and marketing. Developed by experts in their area, these courses can help put you on the path to successfully working for yourself.
Online Learning
What is Online Learning?
If you're not sure what online learning is all about, let us give you a brief overview.
Online courses give you the same opportunity to learn as on-campus courses, except that they are much more flexible. You don't have to be in a certain place at a certain time in order to participate. When you sign up for an online or "web-based" course, you'll receive the address or "URL'" for your course's home page. Your course home page is just like your classroom. From this starting point, you'll be guided through each step of your course, learning activities, resources, discussions with your teacher and course mates, just to name a few. You'll be taking your course with a group of other students (and we'll suggest a weekly schedule for you to follow with your class), but you can choose the time 'day or night' to get online. And although our online courses are "web-based", many come with other materials as well, like course manuals, video tapes, CDs, or readers. You'll have some assignments to submit, and a final exam to write,we have lots of options to make writing the exam as convenient as possible for you. Well, as convenient as writing any exam can be)
No lectures, no driving, no parking fees, no scheduling hassles. Just a computer, a modem, and a willingness to set aside about 10 hours a week for each course you'd like to take. And our flexible Open Learning program lets you take a course for credit.
What Do We Believe In?
In our planning, we use a list of criteria known as Best Practices. These guidelines help us to make sure that we are planning for and producing online courses of the highest quality, and are giving you a learning experience that will meet your needs.
Here's what we believe about online learning...
We believe that online learners need to feel connected . both to their instructors and to the other people in their online class. You won't feel isolated and alone in an online course from the Virtual Learning. Our courses build in opportunities for you to get to know, talk to and work with the other people in your course using our "asynchronous" computer conferencing system. We believe that people learn best when they have the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from a variety of viewpoints.
We believe that timely and consistent feedback is important to your success in an online course. If you've taken a correspondence course before, you might have experienced the "black hole syndrome". where you keep sending in your assignments, but nothing ever seems to come back to you before the next one's due, and you're never quite sure where you stand, or even if you're "getting it." In our online courses at the VLC, we're trying to avoid that: by having you submit assignments online (so they're not held up by the postal system); by providing links to your course instructors through easy-to-use email and computer conferences; by giving you online access to your marks as soon as they're posted by your instructors.
We believe that you need a clear framework to help you work through the course, with weekly schedules and clearly defined due dates. We'll try to give you a small assignment early in your course, with others paced throughout the semester, so you can get going early and keep on track. And while online learning allows you lots of flexibility in your day-to-day scheduling, we've learned that suggesting a weekly schedule can be just the help students need to keep progressing and finish what they've started.
We believe that online courses should be interactive, that is, you should get to do something as you learn. In our online courses, you'll find learning activities designed to help you practice the concepts you're learning. We want you to be actively involved in your own learning, so we've tried to avoid putting lecture materials up on the web. Instead, we use the web for what it does best . connecting you to your instructor, to other people and to resources that you can access as you complete the learning activities and assignments for the course.
We believe that no two students learn in exactly the same way, so we try to provide you with a variety of learning materials. Many of our "web-based" courses come with course manuals, video tapes, CD's, or readers. We try to offer you a choice of assignments and projects in each course so you can pursue what interests you most.
We also believe that you should have access to all the resources that you need to successfully complete your course . without having to come to an actual college or University campus.
We believe in designing our online courses so that they place you . the learner . at the center of the process, and surround you with the resources and help you need to make taking an online course a successful and rewarding learning experience.
The VLC career training school program is the best way to learn from home. Our online comprehensive training classes allow you to learn and work at home. Your career in home based studies begins with this web site and it's unique online training programs. Certification becomes easy and allows you to work at home and seek career business opportunities. Legitimate online schools should follow guidelines, which this training program does. You do not need a community college or university degree to have a successful career. All the information you need is available at this web site. This schooling will train you through comprehensive on line classes, with immediate access, to get you started in home study, and to learn from home.
The VLC has partnered with private and public institutions to help meet the needs of the growing health care industry. These initiatives include:
If you're not sure what online learning is all about, let us give you a brief overview.
Online courses give you the same opportunity to learn as on-campus courses, except that they are much more flexible. You don't have to be in a certain place at a certain time in order to participate. When you sign up for an online or "web-based" course, you'll receive the address or "URL'" for your course's home page. Your course home page is just like your classroom. From this starting point, you'll be guided through each step of your course, learning activities, resources, discussions with your teacher and course mates, just to name a few. You'll be taking your course with a group of other students (and we'll suggest a weekly schedule for you to follow with your class), but you can choose the time 'day or night' to get online. And although our online courses are "web-based", many come with other materials as well, like course manuals, video tapes, CDs, or readers. You'll have some assignments to submit, and a final exam to write,we have lots of options to make writing the exam as convenient as possible for you. Well, as convenient as writing any exam can be)
No lectures, no driving, no parking fees, no scheduling hassles. Just a computer, a modem, and a willingness to set aside about 10 hours a week for each course you'd like to take. And our flexible Open Learning program lets you take a course for credit.
What Do We Believe In?
In our planning, we use a list of criteria known as Best Practices. These guidelines help us to make sure that we are planning for and producing online courses of the highest quality, and are giving you a learning experience that will meet your needs.
Here's what we believe about online learning...
We believe that online learners need to feel connected . both to their instructors and to the other people in their online class. You won't feel isolated and alone in an online course from the Virtual Learning. Our courses build in opportunities for you to get to know, talk to and work with the other people in your course using our "asynchronous" computer conferencing system. We believe that people learn best when they have the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from a variety of viewpoints.
We believe that timely and consistent feedback is important to your success in an online course. If you've taken a correspondence course before, you might have experienced the "black hole syndrome". where you keep sending in your assignments, but nothing ever seems to come back to you before the next one's due, and you're never quite sure where you stand, or even if you're "getting it." In our online courses at the VLC, we're trying to avoid that: by having you submit assignments online (so they're not held up by the postal system); by providing links to your course instructors through easy-to-use email and computer conferences; by giving you online access to your marks as soon as they're posted by your instructors.
We believe that you need a clear framework to help you work through the course, with weekly schedules and clearly defined due dates. We'll try to give you a small assignment early in your course, with others paced throughout the semester, so you can get going early and keep on track. And while online learning allows you lots of flexibility in your day-to-day scheduling, we've learned that suggesting a weekly schedule can be just the help students need to keep progressing and finish what they've started.
We believe that online courses should be interactive, that is, you should get to do something as you learn. In our online courses, you'll find learning activities designed to help you practice the concepts you're learning. We want you to be actively involved in your own learning, so we've tried to avoid putting lecture materials up on the web. Instead, we use the web for what it does best . connecting you to your instructor, to other people and to resources that you can access as you complete the learning activities and assignments for the course.
We believe that no two students learn in exactly the same way, so we try to provide you with a variety of learning materials. Many of our "web-based" courses come with course manuals, video tapes, CD's, or readers. We try to offer you a choice of assignments and projects in each course so you can pursue what interests you most.
We also believe that you should have access to all the resources that you need to successfully complete your course . without having to come to an actual college or University campus.
We believe in designing our online courses so that they place you . the learner . at the center of the process, and surround you with the resources and help you need to make taking an online course a successful and rewarding learning experience.
The VLC career training school program is the best way to learn from home. Our online comprehensive training classes allow you to learn and work at home. Your career in home based studies begins with this web site and it's unique online training programs. Certification becomes easy and allows you to work at home and seek career business opportunities. Legitimate online schools should follow guidelines, which this training program does. You do not need a community college or university degree to have a successful career. All the information you need is available at this web site. This schooling will train you through comprehensive on line classes, with immediate access, to get you started in home study, and to learn from home.
The VLC has partnered with private and public institutions to help meet the needs of the growing health care industry. These initiatives include:
- Partnering with dozens of prominent, nationally accredited community colleges and accredited universities to offer The VLC's training programs to their students under an exclusive licensing agreement.
- Partnering with accredited medical service providers to develop online skills assessment testing, which has become the most widely used recruiting tool in the industry.
- Continued, active partnerships with accredited medical coding and medical transcription employers to assure curriculum, products, training programs and services meet the needs of employers.
About Online Distance Certificate Learning Programs and the Virtual Learning Center School
Career online certificate courses through distance learning schools such as the Virtual Learning Center are basically done by
correspondence class, however rather then relying on the mail, it is done through an online class. All tests and exams,
including testing throughout each module as well as a mid term exam and a final exam are also done online. Learning is made
less complicated for a change in career with this type of certificate course program, making online correspondence the number
one method of choice.
Getting your diploma or certificate as a specialist in any of our online training correspondence courses from home becomes much more convenient than attending an accredited college or accredited university. And as we pointed out before, you do not need an accredited college degree or an accredited university degree to succeed in any of our online training courses. Your online training education certificate or diploma is all you need to get started.
Starting your own business from home as never been easier. You can learn to become professional specialist from home through the Virtual Learning Center School class, with our online training certificate program, rather then through an accredited college or an accredited university. No other school, college or university gives you the options that the VLC does in in any of our online training.
Getting your diploma or certificate as a specialist in any of our online training correspondence courses from home becomes much more convenient than attending an accredited college or accredited university. And as we pointed out before, you do not need an accredited college degree or an accredited university degree to succeed in any of our online training courses. Your online training education certificate or diploma is all you need to get started.
Starting your own business from home as never been easier. You can learn to become professional specialist from home through the Virtual Learning Center School class, with our online training certificate program, rather then through an accredited college or an accredited university. No other school, college or university gives you the options that the VLC does in in any of our online training.
