BCNET offers shared services to support the critical teaching mandate of B.C.'s higher education institutions.

Advanced network infrastructure is the platform that enables a wide range of services that impacts teaching:

• Supports the development of innovative distance education programming such as the University of British Columbia's Distributed Medical Program.

• Transforms teaching by enabling high-tech collaborative learning environments.

• Facilitates high-quality, life-like distant meeting experiences for faculty, staff and students through the use of collaboration technologies, which is helping to reduce travel time and costs.

• Enables distributed education through videoconferencing that delivers education to British Columbians in smaller communities.

• Enables high-speed access to: multi-media materials, distant libraries, video-streamed lectures.