Continuing engineering education by electronic blackboard and videotape: a comparison of on-campus and off-campus student performance

The authors discuss student performance in the two different systems that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign employs for its remote delivery of off-campus courses in continuing engineering education. The two systems are the AT&T Gemini 100 Electronic Blackboard system and videotaping courses in a studio classroom setting. Three sets of findings are reported about comparisons of on and off-campus student performance in the same engineering courses offered from 1979 through 1986, and these findings are then related to pertinent literature. The first compares on and off-campus students in electronic blackboard courses over the seven-year period, the second compares on and off-campus students in videotape courses, and the third set of findings compares and contrasts results on student performance resulting from the two types of off-campus delivery systems