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Saturday, May 28, 2005
New Distance-Learning Technology Puts Chatham, Va., Students, Teacher in Class with College Professor 500 Miles Away
There’s nothing unusual about a professor calling on a student to comment on a film her class is studying. But when the professor is speaking from her office in downtown Boston and spots the raised hand of a student who is more than 500 miles away in a classroom in southern Virginia, something entirely different is happening.That scene has been repeated often this spring at Chatham Hall all-girls boarding school in Chatham, Va., as the result of a new Internet-based, distance-learning system that, unlike similar technologies, frees instructors anywhere in the world to teach from any location they choose. A specially equipped laptop and camera allow the teacher to interact in real time with students who have access to Chatham Hall’s state-of-the-art technology center.
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