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The Harvard Extension School’s new distance education facility allows faculty to focus on teaching as cameras are discreetly operated from a central control booth. |
Taking distance education to the next levelA major advance in distance education was initiated this fall in a specially equipped classroom at the Harvard Extension School. Classes held there give online students the ability to view on-campus lectures in real-time and actually take part in classroom discussions. The facility also serves as an experimental locus to test distance education teaching methods and technology. One of the extraordinary benefits of the $1 million in state-of-the-art equipment is that several courses can be taught at the same time.The Extension School is among a small number of institutions across the country offering streaming video of college courses. |
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