Technogenesis® TV show explores Web-based education

Today, a student in Brazil can respond to a Stevens Institute of Technology professor in New Jersey, while an educator in Silicon Valley can offer a seminar to professionals in New York. Is Web-based distance learning the future of higher education? How will online learning effect today's students, and who will be most impacted?

Experts compare this new type of learning with the traditional classroom setting and more this Sunday on Technogenesis®, a TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network.

Featured guests include Dr. Frank Mayadas, program director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Robert Ubell, director of Web-based Distance Learning at Stevens Institute of Technology.

The Technogenesis program, "Web-based Distance Learning" airs at 7:30 p.m. on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays: May 27, June 10, June 24, July 8. Check local cable listings for cn8 in your area.

Dr. Mayadas is director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's "Learning Outside of the Classroom" program. He focuses on areas of learning outside the classroom through computer and electronic communications-based education and training. The goal of this program is to make higher education and training available anytime and anywhere for anyone who is motivated to seek it. Grants have gone to institutions of higher education to encourage their use of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs), which make possible electronic access at any time to remote learning resources such as instructors, fellow students, text and software.

Robert Ubell is director of the Web-based Distance Learning program at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he launched the school's first online graduate program, WebCampus.Stevens. At WebCampus.Stevens, students can takes courses for credit, leading to graduate certificates, or non-credit professional e-Seminars.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis programs feature government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

Hosted by Stevens President Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes two or more special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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