[Note: The following is from a listserv msg that I have edited slightly - Ed] Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 14:57:39 -0400 From: Mark Sanders Subject: Distance Education at Virginia Tech UCC-L Members: As per Ed's request for brief reports on the "special topic" to which we were assigned, I offer the following digest of a "Distance Eduation" report Tom Head shared with me. --mark sanders **************** Virginia Tech Distance Education Fall 1995 Total Hours: 650 hrs / semester COMMONWEALTH GRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAM Courses ISE 5015 Management of Change, Innovation, & Perform. in Organizational Systems EE 5514 Modeling with Hardware Description Languages ISE 5104 Operations Research EE 5984 SS-Neural and Fuzzy Systems CE 4174 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management ISE 5124 Management of Quality and Reliability CE 5014 Construction Control Techniques ENGR 5004 The Systems Engineering Process Receive Sites: 38 total Technology: Satellite video (Ku digital) Course ENGR 5004 The Systems Engineering Process Receive Sites: 3 total Technology: Two-way interactive video (digital compression via ISDN lines) ************** VIRGINIA CONSORTIUM OF ENGINEERING & SCIENCE UNIVERSITIES Courses AOE 6145 Computational Fluid Dynamics Receive Site: Peninsula Graduate Center Technology: Two-way interactive video (digital compression via ISDN lines) ***************** TELEVISED MBA PROGRAM Courses MKTG 5104 Marketing Policy & Strategy MGT 5794 Strategic Management MSCI 5414 Production Operations Management in a Global Environment FIN 5014 Commercial Law Receive Sites: 9 total Technology: Satellite video (Ku digital) ****************** DEPARTMENTAL EFFORTS COMPUTER SCIENCE CS 5604 Information Storage and Retrieval Receive Site: Northern Virginia Graduate Center Technology: Two-way interactive video (digital compression via ISDN lines) and Internet (Timbuktu and Netscape, etc.) ****************** COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ENGR 4984 Professional Success Skills for Teamwork Receive Site: Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France (university site) Technology: Two-way interactive video (digital compression via ISDN lines) and Internet (CUSeeMee) ***************** COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (non-credit) Three teaching methods workshops Receive Site: Southwest Virginia Regional Center Technology: Two-way interactive video (digital compression via ISDN lines)