The high-technology classrooms located throughout the complex provide the latest multimedia components to enhance instructor presentations. A domed atmospherium with several media presentation systems hosts many of the larger downlink or lecture assemblies. And a resource center provides the latest print media and network links. Distance Learning The Distance Learning group of the AeroSpace Network manages the facilities for broadcast, video, and multimedia production. Our broadcast satellite instructional delivery system consists of the host site at UND and receive sites all over the country.
Broadcasts originate in an interactive classroom, or from a fully-equipped television studio.
The digital compressed uplink system makes efficient used of satellite time while still keeping the quality high. In addition to broadcasts, a complete video production center is capable of producing commercial-quality video material for local or remote distribution. The interactive broadcast classroom is used for both AeroSpace Network broadcast classes and local campus classes. The room is also equipped with a high-tech keypad response system from One Touch Systems. This is a UNIX-powered system linked to our satellite receiver system to monitor student input from all the remote sites as well as the local site.