About Coast Learning Systems

Coast Learning Systems is the production, marketing, and distribution division of Coastline Community College, and an award-winning producer of instructional media since 1973. Coast Learning Systems also markets and distributes its courses worldwide. Coastline is one of the few educational institutions that designs, produces, offers, markets, and distributes distance learning courseware. It is uniquely qualified to develop innovative and flexible instructional systems that are interesting and effective in serving the needs of college students, people in corporate training programs, and learners in various other institutional settings. Telecourse production is accomplished in cooperation with KOCE-TV, Channel 50, the Coast Community College District's local PBS station, which also broadcasts to Coastline students. All courses are developed under the supervision of a National Academic Advisory Team representing community colleges and universities from all over the United States.

A Pioneering Commitment to Innovation for Educational Effectiveness and Efficiency

In 1972, the Coast Community College District (in Orange County, California) produced its first college-level educational television series. The term telecourse had not yet been coined, but the District had a commitment to explore new modes of delivering education. Telecourses and other media-based instruction clearly had the potential to reach new students and increase enrollments.

Coast Learning Systems: A Leader in Distance Learning

Coast Learning Systems has produced some of the most widely used telecourses, including such award-winning series as Psychology: The Human Experience, Dollar$ & Sense (personal finance), Faces of Culture (anthropology), and UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier (astronomy). Series produced by Coast Learning Systems have been offered nationally and internationally by hundreds of colleges and universities via PBS stations and cable networks, and by videocassette, by CD-ROM aboard U.S. Navy submarines and surface ships, and in a wide variety of business and training settings.

Course Production

Coast Learning Systems' experience and tradition of excellence is reflected by collegial, collaborative relationships with such leading agencies as PBS/Adult Learning Service, KCET-Los Angeles, WNET-New York, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the U.S. Navy, Dallas TeleLearning, Great Plains Network (GPN), and INTELECOM (Southern California Consortium). Such noted educational publishers as McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins, Harcourt Brace, Worth Publishers, Thomson Learning, and Kendall/Hunt have participated in Coast Learning Systems projects. Renowned scholars and expert teachers have appeared in or been consultants on Coast video lessons or authored course print materials. Portions of many telecourses are shot on location to achieve the authenticity evoked by depicting people and subject matter in true-to-life settings.

Awards and Honors

Aegis Award of Excellence
Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology
Dollar$ & Sense: Personal Finance for the 21st Century
Psychology: The Human Experience

American Corporate Video Award of Excellence
Marketing - Revised

American Film and Video Association Festival Award
Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior

Best of the West Award, Pacific Mountain Network
Beginning Piano
Focus on Watercolor
Introducing Biology
Marketing-Revised
Needlecraft
Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior
Understanding Human Behavior
Voyage: Challenge and Change in Career/Life Planning

Bronze Award, WorldFest Houston
UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier

Chicago Film Festival Award
Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior

Cindy Award, Association of Audio Visual Communicators
Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology (Bronze)
The Photographic Vision: All About Photography (Gold)
UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier (International)

Communicator Award of Distinction
Mastering the College Experience

Emmy Award for Best Instructional Series Chinese Brush Painting Concepts in Marketing Dollar$ & Sense: Personal Finance for the 21st Century Faces of Culture Introducing Biology Marketing-Revised Needlecraft Psychology: The Human Experience Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior Time to Grow Transitions Throughout the Life Span UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier

Emmy Award for Best Original Musical Score
The Photographic Vision: All About Photography

Gold Award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Time to Grow

Gold Camera Award, U.S. International Film and Video Festival
UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier

Gold Plaque Award, INTERCOM
Faces of Culture

Golden Eagle Award, Council for International Nontheatrical Events (CINE)
Chinese Brush Painting
The Photographic Vision: All About Photography
Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior
UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier

Governor's Award, Pacific Mountain Network
Marketing-Revised

Hugo Award, International Film and Video Festival
Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology (Silver)
UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier (Silver)

International Film & Video
Mastering the College Experience
Psychology: The Human Experience

New York Festivals Award
Faces of Culture
Time to Grow

Ohio State University Award for Excellence
Faces of Culture
The Humanities through the Arts
Introducing Biology

President's Award, Community College Association for Instruction & Technology (CCAIT)
Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior

Silver Apple for Excellence, National Educational Film and Video Festival
Time to Grow

Silver Laurel Award, International Television Association
Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology

TeleCon Award, TeleConference Magazine
Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior
Time to Grow

Telly Award
Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology (Bronze)
Psychology: The Human Experience (Bronze)
UNIVERSE: The Infinite Frontier (Silver)

The Videographer Awards
Psychology: The Human Experience

WAVEY Award, Newtek
Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology (Instructional--Best Animation)