broadcast lectures by radio. Northeastern later established Network Northeastern, which used the microwave-based Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) system to broadcast courses to subscriber companies and to the Burlington and Dedham campuses. The network telecast live classroom instruction to remote sites where students interacted with instructors via a telephone-based talkback system. Network Northeastern broadcast educational programs to over thirty local corporations. Network Northeastern also delivered graduate level and short courses throughout the United States via satellite.21 The vision and desire to expand access to its course offerings to students beyond the main campus in innovative, alternative formats for the delivery of instruction helped to meet the growing demands of students and industry.
58 l The Lowell Institute School at Northeastern University