Students liked the job relevant skills taught |
Important to have curricula mentor and technology expert at remote site; important to visit 2 or 3 times a semester |
Digital Audio/video less stressful to lecturer than speaker phone |
"Shy" students are helped by remote format as digital interactions are "personality neutral" |
Need to keep to the point -- digressions, which are often helpful in standard lectures, tend to lose students |
Need to keep everything synchronized -- chat as we tended to use it caused confusing delay |
Experiments were successful but conservative -- we deliberately tried to reproduce "time honored approach" -- we can expect there to be different optimal approach in distance case than in face to face case -- find by more experiments! |