Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!ogicse!plains!stinnett From: stinnett@plains.NoDak.edu (M.G. Stinnett) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Home Studies Summary: The infrastructure is in place Message-ID: <8958@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 08:07:08 GMT References: Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Lines: 20 In article bmb@bluemoon.uucp (Bryan Bankhead) writes: >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. > 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! In the North Dakota Higher Ed system we're starting to operate a 2-way TV link between different universities for this purpose. It wouldn't be too great a trick to pipe the video and audio onto the local cable systems. Since we already have a computer network linking all the larger towns (which all have colleges) the questions could be sent in via the net; the notes would be easy. I'll have to take this up with the Board of Higher Education. --M. G.