MIND's Interactive Long Distance Learning Project

Purpose of an Interactive Long Distance Learning System:

The Interactice Long Distance Learning System provides:

• Access to high level courses that are not offered due to limited enrollment by allowing multiple sites to effectively added the limited enrollments for a course together and share the cost associated with the instructional staff.
• It allows the older student population of a high school to jump start the college education process, while staying in the high school environment.
• It allows for staff development and inservices from a more diverse area of resources.
• It allows Administrators to use its Video Conferencing capabilities and attend meetings that would pull them out of the district or school.
• It allows the schools that have ILDL rooms to partner with local colleges, and become a site for offering college courses to the residents of the local school districts.

Some articles on Long Distance Learning both Video and over the Internet:

• Using Compressed Video for Distance Learning
• What is IDL Frequently Asked Questions
• The New Mexico Distance Learning Network
• Distance Learning Program Reaches Adult Learners
• Distance Learning Fact Sheet
• Distance Learning - What Others Are Doing
• Two Way Compressed Video in Education
• Distance Learning in Every School by Lucent Technologies
• Distance Learning by Lucent Technologies
• Litton-FiberCom: Distance Learning Applications
• Distance Learning from Bell South
• 10 Reasons for Distance Learning from ASK International
• What is Distance Learning at Virgina Tech