Correspondence Education (34 C.F.R. § 602.3.)

Correspondence education means:

(1) education provided through one or more courses by an institution under which the institution provides instructional materials, by mail or electronic transmission, including examinations on the materials, to students who are separated from the instructor.

(2) interaction between the instructor(s) and the student is limited, is not regular and substantive, and is primarily initiated by the student.

(3) If a course is part correspondence and part residential training, the Secretary considers the course to be a correspondence course.

(4) correspondence education is not distance education.