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cheaper, it is possible that UT students can afford it in the near future. This
actually will increase the use of UT TV programs in the years to come .

Online Tutorial

In accordance with the fast development of information and communication
technology, UT keeps trying to give better services to its students . From the year
2000, UT had developed computer assisted instructions (CAl) , an interactive

multimedia for some courses . Moreover, the quality of the CAl programs has
been continuously improving in line with the increasing skills of UT staff in

developing it. The strength of the well and professionally developed CAl is its
capability of delivering learning material interactively which can surpass an

individual teacher, because the development of CAl involves a number of experts
who work together on a team . The use of computers at UT is in the form of CAl

and internet network. The different characteristics between the two computer-
based programs lie on their interactive capacity. CAl is limited to individual

learning with one user at a time, while the internet is capable to de!iver learning
materials to many people at one time. The internet allows the spreading of more

flexible education which overcomes the distance, space, and time dimension.
Although online tutorials are more superior to CAl , the latter keeps being

developed because the students can make use of it by using their PC that does
not have to connect to the internet. Therefore, the students who can not access

the internet will still have access to the CAl.

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