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Session XXXX

CS/EE Online – Lessons Learned in Planning, Developing, and Operating a Joint, Web-Based Master’s Program

Bill D. Carroll, William P. Osborne, Behrooz Shirazi, C. D. Cantrell, Saibun Tjuatja UT-Arlington/UT-Dallas/UT-Arlington/UT-Dallas/UT-Arlington

Introduction

CS/EE Online is a web-based master’s degree program being jointly developed by The University of Texas at Arlington (UT-Arlington) and The University of Texas at Dallas (UT- Dallas) with funding from The University of Texas TeleCampus. Students may choose to major in computer science, computer science and engineering, or electrical engineering and must designate either UT-Arlington or UT-Dallas as their home institution. Students receive the degree from the home institution but take courses from both. The program was conceived in the spring of 1999, and course development began in the fall of that year. The first courses were available online in fall 2000 with the full complement of 24 courses planned for the 2002 academic year. US News and World Report 1 recently selected CS/EE Online as one of the best online graduate programs in engineering.

The following two sections will provide the context in which the program was conceived and developed and program details, respectively. Course development related issues are then discussed. The final two sections of the paper describe administrative issues that had to be solved and lessons learned.

Background

The UT TeleCampus is an administrative unit of The University of Texas System with a mission to develop and support distance-learning programs across the 15 campuses of the System. Central to the core design of the UT TeleCampus is service, and the necessity to provide increased access to education without compromising the quality and integrity of the educational offerings, their tradition or the educational mission of the universities within the System.

The UT TeleCampus was launched in May 1998, with a website designated to serve as a central support system for the online educational initiatives of the 15 component campuses and research facilities that comprise the UT System. Utilizing a unique model, the UT TeleCampus spent its entire first year building student services, digital libraries, conferencing and chat capabilities, and compiling hundreds of links to education resources that could be utilized by the general public. These links provide educational support for K-16 and beyond, thus creating a backbone of Internet-based support to the lifelong learner. The goal of the UT TeleCampus in placing programs online is the creation of collaborative degrees, utilizing the best resources in faculty expertise from all campuses. Programs currently offered via the UT TeleCampus are listed in Table 1. More information on the UT TeleCampus can be found on their web site 2.

“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Osborne, W., & Carroll, B. (2002, June), Cs/Ee Online Lessons Learned In Planning, Developing, And Operating A Joint, Web Based Master's Program Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10181