Embracing the middle ground:

There is little doubt that distance learning provides a host of opportunities for onand offcampus students. For working professionals seeking a degree, often it is not an option to attend the University full-time. Distance learning programs provide the means to pursue an otherwise unattainable education. Likewise, on-campus students benefit from the virtual presence and expertise of off-campus students, who typically have more ‘realworld’ engineering experience than their on-campus peers. In this work, the authors’ technological and philosophical approaches to distance education at the graduate level are presented.