The University does in addition pride itself on the growing and already large numbers of foreign students studying at the campus. Within most programmes both compulsory and optional courses are included. The principal teaching medium is printed material such as study guides, written assignments, reading instructions, study or review questions. Other media include television, videoconferencing, video and audio cassettes, the use of computer and e-mail, local study centres for full tutorial support. Internet is becoming more popular as a medium for course distribution and communication.
Many distance courses require meetings for lectures, tutoring and laboratory sessions.
The University has established a special unit, U-LINK, Centre for Continuing and Distance Education, equipped with television and videoconferencing facilities to be responsible for the internal development and distribution of distance education courses. Since their programmes are coded and the course participants must decode the signal, they are working on a so called 'narrowcasting' mode. Their distance education programmes are live transmissions and the participants can take part in the lectures interactively by phone, fax or on a computer conference system. The participants have the opportunity to use facilities for asking questions or commenting on the content of the lecture since the teacher and the participants take part in a live transmission. This interactivity is very important and has a psychological impact on the participant.