The College's Distance Learning and Videoconferencing Center utilizes videoconferencing technology which allows instructors and students to see, hear, and speak to each other in real time while they are not in the same geographical location. Students and instructors interact via audio, video, and computer network technologies. Videoconferenced meetings or training sessions can be cost effective, time saving, and worldwide.

79th Street Distance Learning Center and the 68th Street Distance Learning Room are equipped with ISDN videoconferencing capability. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a world-wide network of digital phone lines that allow videoconferencing to national an international locations with similar videoconferencing systems.

The 68th Street Room was originally installed as part of a resource-sharing network called the City University of New York Media Distribution System (CUNY-MDS). The CUNY-MDS allows two-way interactive and multi-point videoconferencing events as well as the sharing of rich analog and digital sources between and among approximately 14 CUNY colleges via T-1 circuits.

The 79th Center is also participating in the New York City Institutional Network (I-Net) which links city agencies, educational institutions and cultural centers via a high capacity SONET based fiber optic network. I-Net allows for broadcast quality interactive videoconferencing between and among combinations of these participating sites.

Phone Number: (212) 452-7108
Fax: (212) 452-7485