[OT] tele-education

[Garrett Goebel]

Bryan Richard wrote:
>
> I actually had something like this in High School. Pre-Internet, they
> hooked three classrooms up via video cameras and you watched
> televisions of the teacher and students from as far off as the next
> county. Woohoo!
> The teachers rotated each semester.
>
> Zero discipline, couldn't read the chalkboard, worksheets were faxed
> back back and forth, &c. This was high technology back then -- I don't
> recall computers be involved -- and I imagine that the video
> link cost a pretty penny. It would probably not take much more than
> a couple of modern PCs and an ISDN line to do the same thing now.
>
> Not an ideal way of handling the education of Seniors in High School,
> even if it was a bunch of nerds in AP Lit. I mowed through several
> Stephen Kings in that class.

Sounds like failures in implementation.

Australia is supposed to have pioneered solutions a lot of the
tele-education problems in order to improved the educational opportunities
in the outback. I'd be curious to hear what their implementation looks like.
Though I wouldn't be surprised if the same solution still wouldn't work with
America's undisciplined uninterested attention span challenged youth. -I
fell asleep in the classes when the teachers were present...

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