1997 State Vector is provided by Libraries, Computing and Technology as a current awareness update for the entire MSU campus community. These and other Video Brown Bag tapes are available for library check-out. Some three dozen students enrolled for credit in MSU's four new Virtual University courses 11 in Winter 1996.
Courses are available in credit and non-credit modes.
CPS 291 is also being offered on the Web to MSU on-campus audiences. 12 Pitched at enterprising learners with different levels of technical background, CSS 110 and CPS 291 offer serious opportunities for those desiring to gain computing and networking skills. Faculty offering virtual university courses anticipate that their students possess access to a reasonably standardized set of software tools, which compose part of a good software availability checklist for every academic's desktop. An Adobe Acrobat 3.0 reader 16 is also very useful, particularly for new on-line journals. All are currently free, but subject to license terms.