Increase retention through a better support system and an enhanced quality of learning. These technological innovations are incorporated as required into the written course materials which the OUI produces in the various disciplines. An integrated learning environment, based on an effective convergence of all three modes of distance teaching, is currently in its initial stage. This innovative project is aimed at integrating synchronic and asynchronic modes of learning into a cohesive and coherent resource-based learning environment. This mode of distance teaching assumes that students are studying alone, that each student controls the pace of learning, and that learning takes place at different times and in different places.
Instruction is material-based and interaction is formalized.
Such foreign produced telecourses are thoroughly reviewed by the academic staff of the OUI, and some are adopted and then adapted and translated into Hebrew. The OUI creates telecourses in areas where courses are scarce and in which television has an obvious advantage. Some of these broadcasts are produced by the University expressly for its courses and others are quality films acquired by the University for its educational purposes. Several multimedia courseware programs, displays and assisting material, are currently being developed in various fields of study. In addition, selected multimedia courseware, produced by others, is adapted and integrated into the OUI courses.