ASSESSMENT OF A REMOTE VIDEOTAPED OR COURSE.

The article assesses a remote videotaped segment of a lecture on the Monte Carlo simulation. MBA students sit in classrooms in two cities, simultaneously watching a thirty-minute videotaped segment of a lecture on Monte Carlo simulation. At the end of the segment, students in either city use microphones to ask questions via telephone company circuits of the instructor, who is located in a third city. This scenario illustrates the essential method of instruction used for a course in computer and quantitative techniques at West Virginia University (WVU). The lectures were videotaped in black-and-white at WVU television studios. A large number of professionally made graphics were used and rather high production standards were maintained. The tapes, were hand-carried or mailed to the classroom sites. Each classroom had a paid monitor, who would start tapes upon verbal instructions from the instructor. The videotaped lectures were broken down into segments having a length of approximately thirty minutes each. Questions and discussion were permitted only between segments.