美国远距离教育联合体(下称联合体)(TheAmericanDistanceEducationConsortium简称ADEC),是由近65所州立大学和土地赠与学院组成的非盈利的远距离教育联合体。土地赠与学院是根据1862年《莫里尔土地兴学法案》,把土地分给正在开发中的中西部各州,建立农业和工业学院,开展农业和 The United States Distance Education Association (hereinafter referred to as the Commonwealth) (TheAmericanDistanceEducationConsortium referred to as ADEC), is a non-profit long distance education consortium of nearly 65 state universities and land grant colleges. The Land Donation Institute, which established the College of Agriculture and Industry under the Morrill Land Improvement Act of 1862, to distribute the land to the developing Midwestern states, carried out agriculture and