UNT launches e-Campus web site

UNT offers one of the largest online education programs in Texas with 255 courses serving a population of 7,060 students from across the country.

The university unveiled its new e-campus web site at www.UNTeCampus.com Feb. 10 with the goal of simplifying the lives of current and prospective students.

The web site provides a clearinghouse for students to access information for online course offerings and also provides a link to a virtual community for these students.

When UNT launched its online course offerings in 1998, only eight students enrolled, but each year the program has grown dramatically. Now enrollees include students from as far away as Hawaii. In addition to the online students, another 700 students are enrolled in two-way videoconference courses with multiple transmission sites scattered around the state.

The new web site is designed to accommodate the needs of all these students, providing them with quick access to information including online course prerequisites, course objectives, software requirements, course assignments and delivery methods. Students can even visit the site to check out an instructor's testing methods before signing up.

"Our online enrollment has grown to a figure larger than many small Texas colleges," says Philip Turner, associate vice president for academic affairs for distance education. "So this virtual groundbreaking is something akin to opening an entirely new campus for UNT."

Currently, the UNT e-Campus offers programs online in applied gerontology, behavior analysis, chemistry, engineering technology, English, library and information sciences, management, marketing, merchandising and hospitality management, teacher education and administration, and technology and cognition.

BY RUFUS COLEMAN rcoleman@unt.edu

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