The courses will be available by satellite, via Mississippi Fibernet 2000, or through a limited number of Mississippi television cable companies.
Teleconferences allow students to earn academic credit from remote site locations.
It will focus on strategies for students with disabilities who are placed in a regular classroom setting. Primary emphasis will be strategies for regular elementary and secondary education classes. Additional emphases include characteristics of students with disabilities, legislative and legal issues governing full inclusion, psychodynamic behavior modification, and psychoeducational interventions applied to regular classrooms. Students taking this course may elect to receive graduate credit for special topics in elementary education, special topics in secondary education, or special topics in special education. Elrod has extensive distance-learning experience in his previous faculty position at Eastern Oregon State University.