Distance Learning

Distance Learning. . , 1 Electrical engineering professor C.M. Janskey (right) and student John K. Hilliard operated the University's broadcasting and public-address systems, 1926 , 2 Electrical engineering department radio display at State Fair, 1922 , 3 Rehearsing taconite radio show at KUOM, 1950 , 4 Bob Hope visits KUOM , 5 Professors Harold Deutsch, history, and Asher Christiansen, political science, prepare for a School of the Air broadcast, 1941 , 6 Children's radio program at KUOM, 1946 , 7 UNITE operator console, ca. 1980 , 8 Student DJs, radio WMMR , 9 Health Talk and You, a call-in TV show broadcast from Rarig Center for 14 years with U medical experts and students who answered the phones and worked on the technical crew , 10 The U offers many courses and degree programs online, Early Leadership , Since 1913, the University of Minnesota's General Extension Division (now the College of Continuing Education) has been providing education beyond the campus. Similarly, since 1909, Agricultural Extension (now University of Minnesota Extension) has provided University-based expertise to farmers and other audiences., Correspondence courses were one of the earliest forms of distance learning offered by the University. Also, from 1915 through 1999, Audio Visual Library Services (later University Film and Video) maintained a library of 10,000 educational films and videos that were used in classrooms throughout the United States., Radio at the U , With the launch of radio station WLB in the 1920s, the University began broadcasting football games, concerts, and lectures. By the mid-1940s, the station, which had since become KUOM, offered programs ranging from agriculture and child development to nursing and political science., In 1946, during the polio epidemic, the station aired "KUOM for Kids" under the aegis of "Minnesota School of the Air", learning programs for homebound children. As a service to the children and their families, the entire broadcast day was preempted for these programs., KUOM merged with the University's campus station, WMMR, in 1993 to create Radio K, which has become an award-winning student-run station that plays a variety of independent music, both old and new., From TV to the Internet , By the late 1950s, the University was also offering educational programs on television. Beginning in the fall of 1957 and for nearly 20 years, the University broadcast the weekly Minnesota Hour on KTCA-TV., The Institute of Technology's UNITE Distributed Learning began using two-way microwave TV in 1971 to transmit science and engineering courses to companies in Minnesota and Wisconsin. By the 1980s, other University departments were offering courses and seminars via interactive TV and satellite. In the 1990s, the University began pioneering the delivery of educational content via the Internet., In the 21st century, the University of Minnesota remains active in online and distance learning, using video, graphics, simulations, and interactive materials to offer the public convenient access to workshops, seminars, and courses, as well as certificate and degree programs.