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From: bmb@bluemoon.uucp (Bryan Bankhead)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Home Studies
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Date: 16 Mar 91 03:40:16 GMT
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I think is should be possible for a large university to telvise many 
lectures over a special channel which could be accessed using a version of 
a normal scrambler, just like cable TV.  TA's could be online, to screen 
typed in questions and place the most  common ones on the teleprompter for 
the instructor/announcer to deal with.  Here at OSU soem classes are 200+ 
and done in auditoria so you can imagine how much individual attention 
there is! You might as well watch it on TV, and you don't have to cross 
the Oval when the winter winds whistle from the north  at 8:00 a in 
Feebruary. Just watch them in bed with a nice cup of cocao. The 
instructors notes could be done as graphics, indeed the use of graphic 
could be greatly increased. And why copy notes down by hand? Just download 
the day's notes over the EDU-modem!