Participating institutions work with ETV to share information and to secure reduced rates for some Public Broadcast System satellite programming, said Kathleen Olivieri, coordinator of distance learning at Mississippi State.
Students receive guidance from a course instructor through a variety of techniques.
Community college members are Coahoma, Copiah-Lincoln, East Central, Hinds, Itawamba, Meridian, and Mississippi Gulf Coast. All public post-secondary institutions were invited to join, said Olivieri, consortium president. The schools can take advantage of PBS adult learning satellite programming at reduced rates. Current PBS telecourses available through Mississippi ETV include The Sociological Imagination and Art of the Western World. Others will be offered in the fall.