Computer-based instruction is great for simulations, tutorials, drill and practice, and like activities that can be run in a computer lab. Satellite videoconferences allow you to reach a larger audience at multiple sites with one-way transmission and interactivity via phone, fax, or email questions and responses. Audiographics teleconferences connect computers and participants, enabling them to hear each other and work on files and white boards together. Audioconferencing , or conference calls, links groups of people at different sites or individuals in any place with a telephone. On-line chat tools are best used for small group discussions or office hours.
Participants go on-line at a set time and communicate with electronic messages.
Computer-based instruction can be available in a certain place but used at any time. Electronic course reserves and other resources from the campus libraries may be made available to students in the surrounding area. Television broadcasts, including telecourses on the Wisconsin State Network Channels, can reach students in certain viewing areas. Bulletin boards for online group discussions. Illustrated streaming audio allows you to create narrated slide shows for the web.