Visit Evaluation Team Members Evaluation Team Members' Bios Report of Visit to MTU Site Team Report MTU Formal Reponse 13. Distance Education Michigan Tech has developed limited capacity to deliver selected programs and courses to its corporate partners and one subset professional group. The audience for these programs include employees of Ford, General Motors, and professionals interested in surveying. These individuals have full time and demanding work schedules and require flexible learning environments which are served by distance learning modes of delivery. The University's programs employ primarily asynchronous delivery methods including faculty prepared videotaped classes which are taped live on-campus and viewed by students in remote locations.
Students interact with faculty and other students by phone, fax, and e-mail.
The University is currently planning for increased use of the Internet and world wide web for course delivery. The efforts of faculty in the distance education program are supported by professionals in a variety of campus offices including the Library, Admissions, Information Technology, and Financial Aid. The Extended University Programs Division assumes administrative responsibility for distance education programming and the coordination of the delivery of distance education. EUP also assists corporate partners with internal marketing of the programs within each individual partner's network to potential students. The University has an adequate infrastructure to support the limited applications of the current thrust in distance education programming.