Do You Remember?

 
Just 10 years ago at UWG, distance learning delivery was limited primarily to two-way videoconferencing (GSAMS). The first GSAMS courses were offered in Summer 1995 and had a combined enrollment of 156. GSAMS reached its peak in Fall 1997 with nine courses and a combined enrollment of 401 students. This photo is of the DDEC staff (Melanie and Janet) along with our team of GSAMS student facilitators back in 1998 (Christy Talley was a student facilitator back in those days). In Summer 1997, Matthew Clay taught the first partially-online course through a free system called Nicenet, and the first courses utilizing WebCT were offered in Fall 1997. The first fully online course was a graduate political science course in Spring 1998, taught by Jerry Perkins with Melanie Clay and Janet Gubbins. In Fall 2007, there were 171 distance courses taught at UWG with a total enrollment of 3736 students. There were an additional 827 course sections hybrid or technology-enhanced courses which utilized WebCT as well.