In each description, we note the educational event, the audience, means of transmission, overall evaluation, and lessons learned. This methodology takes traditional lecture and discussion courses and translates them into an Internet-based course where the course material and assignments are available from a web address.
CDs capture the lecture in a good visual format.
Interaction in the class occurs through chat rooms. The overall evaluation of the course from the students' perspective was positive. An earlier version of this same class with the same instructors and materials was presented from CMU to its campuses using satellite, audio and video one way, and E-mail as the return communication mechanism. The current version, of course, costs approximately one-third of the satellite version. Another interesting contrast was that the students in the Internet version of the course felt the instructor was more distant.