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Arizona State University
Distance Learning Department
An ITFS licensee for sixteen years, Arizona State has a mature
ITFS Service that broadcasts a full schedule of educational
programming on five of the ITFS channels of its eight licensed
channels. The remaining three channels are leased for use
by a wireless cable operator. Using both daytime and evening
hours, during the past year the University broadcast a total
of more than 200 hours of instruction each week. The program
schedule included undergraduate and graduate credit, training
courses for local business and industry, plus the use of unscheduled
time for the distribution of other non-credit video materials
and a video-on-demand service. ITFS delivered graduate studies
include courses leading to a Master of Science in Engineering
that is being offered in response to requests made by local
industry. During the 1997-98 enrollments in ITFS delivered
college credit courses reached a total of 2,939. The University
has projected that eight full-time channels will be needed
to meet the growing demand for distance education.Contact
Betty Craft icseac@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
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BellSouth
americast ® 100% Digital TV from BellSouth. Video entertainment,
information and educational services provided in part through
key alliances with ITFS educators.
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Boise State University
ITFS Facility
BSU's Knowledge Network is a live instructional television
system. We transmit live classes throughout the valley to
"sites" where students can take classes for credit via TV,
as well as to students viewing classes over Cable TV.
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Broward Educational Communications
Network (BEACON) - School Board of Broward County Florida
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL
The Broward County Public Schools was one of the nation's
first ITFS licensees having received its initial license in
1957. The Board is currently operating all of its eight licensed
channels solely to provide educational services. While its
primary service is curriculum support to the public school
K-12 audience of 245,00 students at ---ITFS sites and to homebound
and incarcerated students, BECON is also delivering graduate
credit coursework for Florida International University, and
in-service training for teachers and school administrators,
and adult education programming to homes via the cable connection.
On weekdays BECON broadcasts 165 hours of educational programming
with an additional fifty hours being broadcast on weekday
evenings. Based on its extensive capacity for distribution
and production, BECON estimates that, in digital, its full
service will mature at thirty-two channels and add training
for business and industry, video on-demand, and high speed
Internet access to its service
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Butte College
Television (BCTV)
BCTV primarily supports Distance Learning by providing specialized
educational programming to several cable systems, and also to
our two remote learning centers (Chico and Willows). Butte College
is a PBS Adult Learning Service member. Telecourses can be taken
for college credit on television. BCTV has been around for quite
awhile, and is an outreach of Butte College and the Center for
Media and Distance Learning Technology. BCTV also offers Public
Access programming to those customers in the Chambers and TCI
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Chicago Instructional
Technology Foundation
The CITF is a non-profit corporation that provides instructional
programming to schools in the Chicagoland area using frequencies
reserved by the FCC for delivery of educational programming
via an ITFS system.
All of our courses are non-commercial, FREE educational programming.
We offer these programs for you to tape and inventory as school
resources. Both Teachers and students may use them in classrooms,
as well as for independent study or home viewing. Contact
Dr. Beverle Bloch CITF
Program Director for additional information.
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Georgia
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Hispanic Information
and Telecommunications Network
El objetivo de la serie es informar y orientar a los estudiantes
sobre las importantes aportaciones de la comunidad hispana a
la vida cultural de Nueva York. Cada programa contará con la
presencia de grupos de estudiantes que hablarán de las actividades
culturales que desarrollan con sus maestros y podrán intercambiar
información y experiencias. For additional information
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Kirkwood Community
College - Cedar Rapids. IA
Kirkwood Community College employs six ITFS channels, five
days a week, to distribute 250 hours of college and high school
credit courses and in-service training for K-12 district teachers,
and administrators, bus drivers, custodians, and food service
workers, and for business and industry. The schedule includes
live interactive courses for both undergraduate and graduate
college credit, as well as for high school credit. High school
seniors may receive credit for college courses taken while
still in high school. The evening program schedule includes
college credit and general interest courses offered by the
college community education division. All classes are live
and interactive utilizing the response talkback system for
ITFS channels. ITFS programming carried on cable systems in
twenty-six nearby communities includes self-study courses,
general interest information, updates of college activities
and student produced sporting events. Kirkwood’s plan
for digital includes an expansion to a ten-channel delivery
system to meet the expected demand for distance learning education.
For additional information contact Orv Thein at othein@kirkwood.cc.ia.us
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KLVX - Channel 10 PBS Affiliate
in Las Vegas, NV
The KLVX Communications Group operates 20 ITFS channels that
are fully programmed from 8:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. on most weekdays,
or approximately 1,500 hours per week. The system is received
at 220 sites with a total potential audience of 200,000. The
twenty channels are used to deliver video materials to elementary
and secondary schools, provide in-service training for teachers
and school administrators and deliver training and professional
education to local business, industry and hospital sites. In
addition, each term has an average of fifteen undergraduate
courses delivered to KLVX via two microwave channels from the
University of Nevada at Las Vegas and the Community College
of Southern Nevada. These courses are distributed on the
ITFS system and typically enroll 1,200 students. To support
the ITFS and it broadcast services KLVX operates two production
studios as well as both satellite uplink and downlink facilities.For
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Mississippi EDNET Institute
- Jackson, MS
The Mississippi EDNET Institute and its educational partners
are licensed for 20 ITFS frequencies currently utilized to
deliver television cable service including two educational
channels controlled by EDNET. The Institute is the sole educational
ITFS licensee for the entire state of Mississippi. EDNET is
a non-profit corporation controlled by a Board of Directors
resenting each of the state educational agencies as well as
the Office of the Governor, the Office of the Attorney General
and a classroom teacher. EDNET recently distributed a "Request
for Information" to vendors interested in leasing its excess
spectrum capacity in the future. For additional information
contact Bill Marshall, Director of Public Relations at: bmarshal@etv.state.ms.us.
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Missouri
Southern State College
Missouri Southern State College holds a license for four ITFS channels, which are
used solely to deliver educational services. All four channels are on a twenty-four
hour per day schedule five days per week airing courses that lead to undergraduate
degrees, courses for high school credit, support for elementary and secondary school
basic curriculum and training for local business and industry. During the past year
the thirty college credit courses offered via ITFS enrolled 400 undergraduate students.
In addition to reception at ITFS sites the system reaches 6,000 households via interconnection
with the local cable system. For additional information contact Jerry Williams
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Northeastern
Educational Television of Ohio, Inc. (WNEO)
WNEO is currently licensed for eight channels, four of which
have been recently licensed. WNEO plans are to retain a full
25% percent of its channel capacity for education for education
services. Applying the FCc authorized channel loading procedure,
WNEO is broadcasting a total of 1234 hours of programming
each week on a single channels that delivers a total of forty-five
hours of educational programming that support elementary and
secondary school basic curriculum, and inservice training
for teachers and school administrators. WNEO’s planning
for future service includes the broadcast of graduate and
undergraduate college credit courses. Training for business
and industry, serving as an alternative delivery system for
non-credit video materials, and Internet access service.
For additional information contact Dave Benson benson@wneo.org
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Panhandle Area Education Consortium
PAEC provides educational and training services and administrative
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Portland Community College - Distance Learning Virtual Campus |
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Portland Public Schools
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Rini, Coran
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providing legal, legislative and related services primarily
in the area of U.S. and foreign telecommunications, multichannel
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For additional information contact Bruce
Braciszewski Sonoma County Educational Telecommunications
Consortium -Santa Rosa. CA
SCETC is a consortium of all the school districts plus the
community College, the universities, PBS station, public libraries,
jail, and private schools. These institutions have joined
together to provide distance education for the county. The
Consortium is currently broadcasting on two of the four ITFS
channels licensed to PBS station KRCB. Consortium members
have applied for an additional twelve channels. Current programming
is directed to elementary and secondary grades plus in-service
training for teachers, business and industry.Based on the
plans of our consortium members, we estimate a need for a
total of sixteen channels in digital to reach a potential
audience of 60,000 students at all receive sites. There is
high interest in offering programming for kindergarten and
adult learners, but plans for that service await FCC action
on our applications that have been pending for three years.For
additional information contact bduffy@metro.net
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TiltRac Corporation -
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for clients with large video libraries for broadcasting, video
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University of Arizona
Video Services
The University of Arizona holds licenses for sixteen ITFS channels,
which it shares with a commercial wireless cable operator. The
current program schedule includes a total of 300 hours per week
of educational programming broadcast during daytime hours and
an additional 70 hours of education each week broadcast in the
early evenings and on the weekend. As a higher education licensee
the university has placed a high priority on the use of its
ITFS system to deliver college credit courses. During the past
year twenty-nine credit courses were delivered to learners via
ITFS with over 500 students enrolled in ITFS courses during
the current year. In addition to college credit programming,
the university provides educational services via ITFS that provide
support for basic elementary and secondary school curriculum,
in-service training for teachers and school administrators,
training for local business and industry, and for the delivery
of other video materials. The university's plans for future
ITFS service include the video on-demand and the high speed
Internet access.
For additional information contact Joe L. Chitwood, Assistant
General Manager, VideoServices, KUAT Communications Group, chitwood@engr.arizona.edu
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University
of California, Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA
The University of California, Santa Barbara ITFS system is
currently offering approximately 30 graduate degree courses
that enroll an average of 140 students each year and lead
to the MS degree in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer
Engineering. The courses are delivered using a two
origination channel/two repeater channel system to reach a
satellite campus forty-five miles distant from the main campus.
The total of 42 hours per week per channel of programming
also includes undergraduate course materials that compliment
live courses in Anthropology, English, History, Law and Society,
Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology instruction at
the satellite campus.
In addition, the system routinely delivers satellite distant
learning received at the main campus to the remote campus
for training programs offered by the California Youth Authority,
the University of California Cooperative Extension and similar
groups.
At such time as excess capacity leases provide additional
educational capacity, UCSB plans to offer a broad spectrum
of continuing education classes, teacher in-service and special
University programs degree courses, University conferences,
symposiums and colloquia.
For additional information contact hadamson@XLRN.UCSB.EDU
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University of South Florida
The University of South Florida is licensed for 20 ITFS
frequencies which have been providing the communities of Tampa,
St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Lakeland with academic programs
for the past 15 years. Today, USF annually offers 100
college credit courses via ITFS. This is a significant
portion of the 260 courses delivered each year via some form
of distance learning technology that services over 10,000
students enrollments in the area.
Over the past several years, the University has been involved
with some exciting developments in ITFS technology including
opposite polarization of the same frequency and beta testing
of 8:1 digital compression. The University is looking
forward to adapting the many possible applications of 2-way
digital technology to the educational services it provides
via ITFS.
For additional information contact Lynn Rejniak, Director,
Research and Development at: rejniak@admin.usf.edu
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WLRN - PBS Channel 17 for
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