This study involves a survey on students' perception and usage of the NUSCast service provided by CIT. The NUSCast facility has two distinct components. The first component is NUSLive: the realtime streaming of the lecture, while it is in progress in the lecture theatre, across the campus network. The second component is Multimedia-on-Demand (MOD): the archived lecture that is made available to on-line users on demand. The objectives of this study are to explore:

• utilisation of NUSLive by students to view live lectures on-line
• incidence of reduction in attendance in lectures as a result of NUSLive service
• extent and scope of using NUSCast service for revision purposes
• comparative analysis of frequency and effective use of NUSLive and NUSCast
• effect of NUSCast (live and archived lectures) on students' understanding of a subject compared to attending lectures
• effect of NUSCast on acquiring knowledge compared to attending lectures
• need for extended NUSCast service to other subjects
• quality of technology and technical problems in accessing NUSCast services
• negative effects, if any, of NUSCast on student learning
• overall reaction of students to this service

The survey of students who were exposed to NUSCast and the preliminary data analyses have been completed. The final report is forthcoming in 2001.