Kansas Regents Educational Communications CenterMel Chastain, Director
E-mail: ecc@ksu.edu
The Educational Communications Center houses resources for the production and distribution of courses and other educational experiences via instructional television, distance education, video conferencing, multimedia, and the Internet. Distribution capabilities include Ku-Band satellite uplinks, fiber optics, Low Power TV, compressed video, video tape, CD-ROM, WWW, and a wide range of other technologies.
Dole Hall also houses studio and control room facilities for instructional use by journalism and mass communications faculty and students, as well as offices and studios for both Cooperative Extension and TELENET 2. Human resources include curriculum design, video and multimedia production, systems engineering, installation and maintenance, academic specialization, long-range budgeting, and project management.
The ECC provides electronic access to and interconnection between each of the Kansas Regents' institutions. The center not only produces and distributes university-level instructional material, but also develops course work and in-service content for public schools, as well as credit and noncredit continuing education material.
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