Fox's class, a survey of world religions, is a combination of lecture and discussion when taught live. If I have 100 students in my class, usually 10-25 of them contribute directly to the discussion on a given day. But, the other students benefit from the discussion. Fox has found that students who view the class on videotape, then, have an experience very similar to students in his classroom. Fox said he has a lot of contact, via telephone and e-mail, with his distance education students.
Teaching is like coaching.
To be an effective teacher, I need to make it possible for students to interact with me. I get a lot of phone calls. The Division of Special Programs in the College of Nursing promotes distance learning initiatives as a major part of its mission. The Higher Education building in Georgetown and Cannon Lab in Lewes each have an ITV classroom linked to similar classrooms on the Newark campus, enabling real-time video and audio links between remote groups of people. These facilities are heavily used.