Utah Education Network

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company_name = Utah Education Network
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foundation = 1989
location = University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah
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data networking
public broadcasting
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homepage = http://www.uen.org|www.uen.org
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The Utah Education Network (UEN) is a not-for-profit consortium of higher and public education, libraries, state government and business. UEN’s high speed computer network connects Utah colleges and universities as well as the state’s school districts and libraries. The Network facilitates interactive video conferencing, provides instructional support services, and operates a public television station (KUEN) on behalf of the Utah State Board of Regents. UEN services benefit more 750,000 students and educators throughout the state of Utah. Network headquarters are in Salt Lake City at the Eccles Broadcast Center on the University of Utah campus.

History

The Utah State Legislature formally established UEN in 1989, but the statewide collaboration of public education and higher education started more than two decades earlier when KUED-Channel 7 signed on the air in 1958. The station built translator towers to beam its signal to remote communities, and later engineers placed microwave link equipment on some of those towers enabling two-way teleconferencing for education and government. In 1987, KULC-Channel 9 (now UEN-TV) started broadcasting as Utah’s Learning Channel, and in 1994 UEN started UtahLINK, the Internet component of the Network. Today all three delivery systems (broadcasting, teleconferencing and Internet data communications) operate under the UEN name.

Key services

* High speed, statewide data network for K-12 schools, colleges and libraries
* Pioneer, Utah’s Online Library, accessible from school, work and home computers
* High school and college courses via live Interactive Video Conferencing (EDNET) and the Utah Electronic High School
* Blackboard Vista hosting for all Utah higher education institutions
* College telecourses, GED, Workplace Essential Skills and Instructional Television on UEN-TV
* Online resources for educators at www.uen.org and my.uen.org
* Free professional development workshops for educators
* Statewide planning and coordination of educational technology
* Lifelong learning resources for everyone from pre-schoolers to senior citizens

Selected statistics

* Over 800 locations for Interactive Video Conferencing.
** 2,951 conferencing events per week, averaging 421 per day in 2004.
* 33,100 students taking 9,993 full-time credits in 2003-2004 High School and College Credit (through Concurrent Enrollment).
** 153,737 semester credit hours of concurrent enrollment courses in 2004.
* 60,000 students taking courses online via the Utah Electronic High School.
* 11,741 educators trained (2005-2006).
* 31% increase in class sessions offered (2005-2006).
* 671 class sessions offered (2005-2006).

ee also

* Eccles Broadcast Center
* KUEN (UEN-TV)
* KUED
* KUER

References

External links

* [http://www.uen.org/ Utah Education Network]
* [http://www.uen.org/tv UEN-TV]
* [http://www.voteutah.org/ voteutah.org] - KUED's Utah Election Information
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