Technogenesis® TV show explores Web-based education

Today, a student in Brazil can respond to a Stevens Institute of Technology professor in New Jersey, while an educator in Silicon Valley can offer a seminar to professionals in New York. Is Web-based distance learning the future of higher education? How will online learning effect today's students, and who will be most impacted?

Experts compare this new type of learning with the traditional classroom setting and more this Sunday on Technogenesis®, a TV program produced by Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network.

Featured guests include Dr. Frank Mayadas, program director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Robert Ubell, director of Web-based Distance Learning at Stevens Institute of Technology.

The Technogenesis program, "Web-based Distance Learning" airs at 7:30 p.m. on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays: May 27, June 10, June 24, July 8. Check local cable listings for cn8 in your area.

Dr. Mayadas is director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's "Learning Outside of the Classroom" program. He focuses on areas of learning outside the classroom through computer and electronic communications-based education and training. The goal of this program is to make higher education and training available anytime and anywhere for anyone who is motivated to seek it. Grants have gone to institutions of higher education to encourage their use of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs), which make possible electronic access at any time to remote learning resources such as instructors, fellow students, text and software.

Robert Ubell is director of the Web-based Distance Learning program at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he launched the school's first online graduate program, WebCampus.Stevens. At WebCampus.Stevens, students can takes courses for credit, leading to graduate certificates, or non-credit professional e-Seminars.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis programs feature government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

Hosted by Stevens President Harold J. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes two or more special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

The Comcast Network is one of the nation's largest regional cable networks reaching close to 4 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research.  The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts.  Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world.  Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.