Paging Loyola Marymount University in California provided pagers to entering freshman this past summer. Loyola got the pagers and service at cost and provided them to the students at no charge. The Web shortens the distance F or several years, colleges, including community and technical colleges, have used technology and telecommunications to offer classes to remote, off-campus students. Now, some schools have developed virtual curriculums, putting distance learning programs on the Internet. It's more convenient.
Students can log in when they want.
The four prototype master's programs are Petroleum Engineering, Engineering Systems Management, Construction Science and Agriculture. Cantrell says the educational technology degree will probably be the first up, followed by mathematics in the spring. The University of Texas System has two master's programs and a undergraduate core course program online. Rees says the UT System approached the set up of a virtual campus differently from many other schools. Telecampus was up a year before we put the courses up.