Distance Learning Resources
GMU-TV
993-3110		 Offers telecourses and promotional videos that reach approximately 500,000 households in the Northern Virginia area.
Capitol Connection
993-3100		 Provides an instructional television system to the Nation's Capitol.  The services include C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, CNN, CNBC, local Washington TV stations, the meetings of the FCC, FERC, & NTSB, and
George Mason University courses for credit to government agencies, law firms, corporate representatives, trade associations, embassies, and news organizations.
Web Server for Web-Based Courses
993-3141		 Offers a location where text, video, audio, and images can be stored and accessed in support of Web-based courses.
TownHall
993-3141

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 Provides a tool that can be used to allow asynchronous and/or synchronous interaction between the instructor and the students and also between students through Web-based forums.
Oracle Video Server
993-3350		 Allows students to access digitized videos using computers on campus.
Web-CT License
993-3141

Click here to connect to Web-CT site.
Gives George Mason faculty and students access to a tool that facilitates the creation of Web-based courses, conferences, on-line chats, student progress tracking, group project organization, on-line testing, and more.

 
UOL Publishing, Inc. Contract

Steve Pierson,
Materiel Mgmt.
993-2585

 George Mason's contract with UOL allows faculty to distribute course materials on the Web as a supplement to a traditional course or as a completely Web-based course.  They provide graphic artists, instructional designers, and computer programmers to assist with course development
George Mason Libraries
993-2223


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 Offer electronic reserves that allow professors to make reading material available to their students through the Web.

Provide Web-based databases and indexes, electronic texts, catalogs, reference sources, and access to the Virtual Library of Virginia.

Answer research questions submitted by faculty members and students through the Web.
Teleconferencing Fairfax--S&T I, rm. 126
993-3426
Offers the Xerox LiveBoard for data sharing and ProShare videoconferencing with one monitor and one camera.  A wireless microphone for the instructor, student table-top microphones, and instructor's PC and network and modem connectivity work with this equipment.

Prince William--rm. 220
993-8356 or 993-8420
Provides a Xerox LiveBoard, Proshare videoconferencing, one camera, one monitor, an Instructor's PC, network and modem connectivity, and a conference telephone.