By Mark Wilcox, Campus Web Administrator

This spring has been truly a semester of change for the Central Web Support team. It marks the first spring that UNT has had 3 full time people working on the Web. Personally I think Kenn and Sharon have helped improve our services and support immensely.

This spring has really been defined by faculty support. The University has a goal of actually holding classes via the Internet by fall 1998. Some of these Internet based courses are already currently offered and we also have variety of distance learning classes that use more traditional techniques (e.g. video-conference & in person at remote location), but the real push will come this fall. This has meant that we have spent much of our time teaching and supporting faculty as they create their classes. It has been a real learning experience for everyone involved and it has been exciting to have been a part of this on the "ground floor".

This fall a new center, Center for Distance Learning, will open its doors. The new center’s job will be to provide a place for professors to find out what’s available at UNT to offer classes via distance learning and also provide a place where they go to have consultants create their sites for them. Look for more information on this exciting new opportunity this summer.

On a more interesting note, our overall traffic as tripled in the past year. In March of last year we averaged about a million "hits" for the central Web server (http://www.unt.edu/), but in February of this year we hit the 3 million mark. That has been the average for the past couple of months. Thanks to everyone who has created content and visited the site.

Until next time,

Mark