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From: patth@dasys1.UUCP
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Subject: Tele-Teaching International, Inc.
Message-ID: <1993@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 17:09:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 17:09:45 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 05:54:47 EST
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
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Keywords: Beijing/Boston

Tele-Teaching International, Inc. in Bethesda, MD. completed
negotiations with China's State Education Commission to link
Beijing Normal University with universities in the USA.
OPTEL, the link, utilitizes a new PC-based video/phone system
to enable participants to keep current of developments in
fields of mathematics and bio-medicine.
Courses from Harvard and Boston Universities are transmitted thru
the system to China; they originate with a simple, direct dial-up,
telephone call from Boston to Beijing.
The courses are simulcast in Chinese or any other language. Professors
and students in both locations can share full-color, high-resolution
video images.
"Global classroom" participants also can interact with their
counterparts and mark up, pinpoint or zoom in on a shared video
image in real time while listening to and talking with the instructor.

[Edited from Technological Horizons in Education "T-H-E Journal"
 Vol. 15, No. 4, November 1987]

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