Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, June 07, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002060701u.htm

Old Dominion U. and Partners Plan Distance Network to Teach Aerospace Concepts
SCOTT CARLSON

Old Dominion University, with the help of a handful of other institutions, is forming a distance-learning project to teach aerospace-engineering concepts to students across the country. One of the project's goals, administrators say, is to develop virtual-reality technologies and other advanced computer programs to be used as instructional tools. Eventually, a network of aerospace-engineering departments at various colleges and universities will use that technology to teach a new generation of engineers. The lesson structures will vary -- some will be led by professors, while others will be delivered by computer programs....

 



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