These technologies are integrated so that the same event can be transmitted to multiple locations in different delivery formats. Most programs can be received in a live, interactive mode. A growing number of classes are now being videostreamed on the Internet, making it possible for individual students, as well as those at corporate sites, to pursue Rensselaer graduate studies at a distance and at any time of the day or night. The World Wide Web also provides for e-mail or chat interaction with the instructor and staff members and provides electronic access to course materials. The credits and degrees received are identical to those received by campus-based students.
Most content is at the graduate level.
In addition, noncredit seminars and workshops are offered in a range of technical areas. In 1999, RSVP launched a series of new information technology degree and certificate programs called IT at a Distance. In addition, Rensselaer alumni may now pursue these or any RSVP programs as individual students. Students should contact the Office of Professional and Distance Education for Web delivery schedules. RSVP delivers approximately seventy-five courses annually via distance learning technology to both individual students and employees at more than sixty sites of many of the nation's leading corporations and other organizations.