The class will not have local students on site. Distance students can access the telecourse through the WUSF-TV channel or through other outlets. Faculty should review the section of the Faculty Primer that addresses instructional strategies for assistance in delivering telecourse classes. High quality audiotapes address all or part of a well-planned instructional class.
Audiotapes can be inexpensive to produce and offered over a variety of academic subjects.
Audiotapes are not interactive and do not address students who are visual learners. Videotapes represent professionally designed instruction by national and USF experts. As with Audiotapes, the quality of the recording is critical for effective learning outcomes to occur. Many Open University reviews are videotaped to accommodate studnets who might have a time conflict on the evening of the review. Arrangements to check out review tapes overnight or longer may be made.