The course content for CSUN online programs is offered using a variety of educational technologies and instructional strategies that are right for the course and the instructional style of the faculty member. Instructional strategies may include live sessions with the faculty member giving a presentation or leading a discussion in real time. Program participants can join such live sessions with the faculty member and other cohort members for a real-time exchange. For students for whom the timing of the live session does not work, the session is recorded and can be viewed later at the participant’s convenience – and it is still not too late to pose questions online and be a part of the ongoing cohort conversation. Program participants also have access to “Student Hubs,” which function as virtual “student unions” that make it possible to further enhance the program’s learning community.

A collaborative and engaged learning experience

CSUN online programs are a collaborative and engaged learning experience. While participants in an online program may enjoy the flexibility offered by the online mode, they never learn alone and come to know their fellow cohort members perhaps far better than may be possible in a traditional classroom. This is no more evident than on graduation day, when cohort members meet at CSUN in person (often with hugs and tears of joy) for the first time.