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UT Tyler offers a wide range of courses at each Interactive Video location giving students cost-saving convenience, greater flexibility in scheduling their classes and reduces travel expenses and commuting time to Tyler.

Panoramic cameras, large TV monitors, projectors, and sensitive sound equipment allow complete communication between each location.

Students are able to see and communicate with faculty that teach from the various UT Tyler campuses. Students are also able to ask questions and participate in classroom discussions. At the same time, the faculty member is able to see and communicate with students in the remote locations.

The University of Texas at Tyler ITV Network is composed of twenty-four interactive video classrooms. There are ten interactive video classrooms on main campus, five classrooms at The University of Texas at Tyler Palestine Campus, eight classrooms at The Longview University Center, and one at Mexia State School.

The University of Texas at Tyler is equipped with a System Operations that monitors and schedules interactive video (ITV) courses that are taught on the main UT Tyler campus as well as from Palestine and Longview campuses. The System Operations monitors and troubleshoots technical problems that may occur during the transmission of ITV classes and is responsible for technical support to the interactive video equipment. Local telecommunication companies provide network connection service for ITV classes and provide technical support to network lines that are located outside the institutions boundaries. A staff of full-time and part-time personnel are on hand at all times during classroom instruction to handle technical and administrative assistance when necessary for courses offered through interactive video.

UT Tyler works closely with the University of Texas System, Office of Telecommunication Services (OTS), in Austin. OTS serves as a gateway to receive meetings and training programs offered through the University of Texas System. They also serve as a telecommunications gateway for interactive video courses offered from The University of Texas at Houston toward a Doctoral Degree in Nursing and the Nurse Practitioner Program offered from Texas Tech.

The University of Texas at Tyler ITV Network is also a part of the Northeast Texas NETNet consortium composed of thirteen microwave videoconferencing systems. Through NETnet, UT Tyler delivers courses to Jacksonville College, Panola College in Carthage,  and Texas State Technical College in Waco. 

For more information, please contact Educational Technology Services at (903) 566-7347.

 

The University of Texas at Tyler
Office of Educational Technology Services
3900 University Blvd
Tyler, TX 75799
Phone: 1-800-UT TYLER
IVN Hotline: (903) 566-7138

Department Webmaster
Melissa Hill
(903) 565-5999
E-mail: mhill@uttyler.edu