Michigan State University By Denise Harrison The Executive MBA program at Michigan State University is an 18-month, team-based program. Each class enters the program together, taking courses in the same sequence and sharing the entire academic experience together. The rigid structure, with four or five team members having to stay in step with each other, makes it difficult when any of the students miss a class. So the staff turned to the IT department for assistance. Streaming Lectures “We were asked to develop a method by which we could Webcast and record class sessions,” said Matthew C. Jackson, operations supervisor for Michigan State University’s management education center. “Students who missed class needed a method by which they could log in later and watch a recorded

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