How does Learn at Home work in Indiana?        

The Indiana Learn at Home Project provides student support services for Hoosier adults who want or need to study from home over television.

All eight Indiana public television stations (PBS) and many cable systems carry Learn at Home programming. The exciting new GED Connection series was first broadcast in Indiana in October 2001. 

GED Connection!

    The new GED Connection series  is a cooperative project of PBS LiteracyLink, Kentucky Educational Television, and The National Center for Adult Literacy. The multi-media series includes 39 half-hour television programs that cover the reading, writing, social studies, science, and math skills adults need to brush up on to pass the GED high school equivalency tests. Two five month "semesters" and one short Summer "semester" of two lessons per week are shown each year.

    Hoosier adults 17 years and older may enroll by "800" telephone and receive books by UPS. They receive newsletters and supportive phone calls throughout the five month series, and can call our toll-free line for help if needed. The cost to the student is $45, which covers pre and post-testing, three workbooks, the official GED calculator, and a voucher to pay for the GED test at any Indiana GED testing site. In Indiana GED testing costs up to $60. There is an additional charge for any section that must be retaken. GED ON TV students must pay for their own retests.

    Each adult who enrolls takes a pre-test at home to determine what they need to study. Students with low reading level or math level will be referred to an adult learning center in their home community. Most successful students read at the 10th grade level before they begin to study from home. Some adults pretest with very high scores and they are encouraged to take the GED Practice test and the GED right away.

*New in 2005, KET created Pre-GED Connections Workbooks that will help adults with  pre-test scores between 6th and 8th grade levels prepare to enroll in GED ON TV. The new books have chapters for 26 of the 39 television programs. These learners get a separate TV schedule.

Over 7,000 adults have earned a GED diploma after watching the programs from home via television. Our enrolled students have ranged in age from 17 to 92 and are 74 per cent women. The average last grade completed was 10th.

Click here for GED ON TV Broadcast Schedule

Muncie Community Schools is proud to have partnered with Indiana's public television stations (see individual station links on schedule page) to pioneer the use of distance education to reach adult students. With the continuing support of Indiana public television stations and the Indiana Department of Education we plan to add other programs as the need arises