Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
World is a Classroom? Thanks to Technology - Stuart Wolpert, Imperial Valley News
The UCLA professor called on one of the students in his classroom during a discussion about whether the genes in your chromosomes can be patented. He then called on another student in a classroom some 370 miles away, at the University of California, Davis. Undergraduates from both campuses are participating in a distance-learning honors course on genetic engineering and its implications that uses state-of-the-science technology, including high-quality audio and video over a high-speed fiber optics network.

 



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