Distance Learning
What we offer
The WSU Extension Communications and Educational Support group offers you a full range of options for delivering your education, training, or certification programs at a distance.
Planning
In the planning stage, we
help you decide which media, or combination of media, would be most suitable for your distance learning needs. Since we support virtually all
media options, you can be sure that the media selection for each
part of your distance learning experience is best suited to your audience,
your subject matter, and your budget.
Materials, Marketing and Measuring Success
Our Web Resources and Graphic Design staff can help design
a Web page for your distance learning program and any printed promotional
materials you might need. Our Publishing and Printing unit can
produce any printed materials and distribute them to your target audiences
via its mailing operation. And our Computing and Web Resources group can
host your Web page on our servers and integrate it into our content management
system for customized updating, RSS feeds, etc. Extension and CAHNRS
Marketing and News Services is available to publicize your educational
program. Finally, our Web staff can help you design an
online evaluation survey to gather feedback from your learners about their
experiences with your distance learning offering.
Media Options for Distance Learning
In
a Flash
Our
newest capability is Web-based training and education. We
have invested in the Flash-based Adobe Acrobat
Connect platform
(previously “Macromedia
Breeze”), a server-based system that allows the creation and administration
of both real-time presentations and recorded training modules. This
includes Adobe Presenter, a desktop software package that allows instructors
to add narration and quizzes and attach files to existing PowerPoint presentations. Adobe
Connect Training allows server-based administration of trainings created
with Presenter. This includes monitoring of data such as course participation,
quiz results, and automated reminder messages. We also offer an interactive
voice, video and text chat capability via “Adobe Connect Meeting,” which
facilitates real-time presentation and collaboration. And finally, “Adobe
Connect Events” lets users manage the full life-cycle of training
events.
Video
and Multimedia
We
offer a variety of media choices that include our award-winning Video & Multimedia unit,
which produces both informational and instructional videotapes, interactive
CDs and DVDs and live satellite productions. This unit supports a statewide
distribution network of satellite receivers in more than 50 locations across
Washington State. This unit also produces live videostreaming events, which
can be viewed by users at their desktop or laptop computers. (See flyer
on Video & Multimedia Unit or
go to the Video Unit Web site.)
Internet based video conferencing
The Washington Education Conferencing Network (WECN) provides multi-site videoconferencing capability over the Internet. Formerly operated by WSU Extension, WECN is now a part of WSU's central Integrated Media Services.
But their statewide video conferencing services are still available to all CAHNRS and WSU Extension employees and we can advise you on how you can integrate this technology with our live broadcast production capability or with other video conferencing systems in Washington State, the United States or even in foreign countries. For more information about the WECN system, go
to: http://wecn.wsu.edu
Give us a try and see what we can offer
For more information, contact Don Pierce ,
Web Development and Implementation Leader, Computing and Web Resources; 509-335-8292.
Distance Education
Distance Education supports the mission of WSU Extension
by:
- Providing federal/state/local agencies with information access and training
- Providing informal education on issues of importance to Washington residents
- Providing continuing education for place-bound professionals
- Partnering to deliver credit education
- Providing professional development to WSU faculty and staff statewide
- Linking communities of interest via communication technology systems
- Experimenting with new technology-based learning environments to reach under-served audiences
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