Dr. Sheldon Landsberger

Sheldon Landsberger, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering professor, began distance teaching in 1992 when he was at the University of Illinois. At that time, he was sending out videotapes of his lectures. Since arriving at the University of Texas in 1997, he is overcoming the barriers these students faced by using streaming media and providing class resources on the web. Sheldon was an early adopter of WebCT, but made the switch to Prometheus last summer. He has now become one of the most vocal supporters of distance education and claims, "you can feel at home with distance learning." He warns that you'll spend a lot of time initially developing web-based resources, but that the rewards outweigh the initial input. While developing his course for online delivery, he has become very well organized. Plus students are able to access materials on-demand and don't have any excuses for missing class.