Innovation in Learning 3rd post

Here is an example of a serious distance education classroom. This website is from the University of Wisconsin and they are describing the amount of technology they put in their distance classrooms and how the technology allows students to access the course. The technology allows instructors to broadcast lectures directly to distance students and allows the distance students to interact with the instructor and class in real time. This set-up is technological more advanced than many other distance programs however, a distance course like this requires the students to be available for the class at the time the class is being held. While this does allow the student to access the class without being physically located in the class, many distance-learning students (myself included) don't just have the constraint of being physically distant from the course location but have to be able to fit the classwork in on their time schedule due to work and family commitments. Outfitting a classroom like this is also very expensive, requires people who can maintain and trouble-shoot A/V equipment, and faculty to be trained in its use along with how to integrate distance and on-site students into a cohesive unit without interrupting the flow of the class. It's definitely impressive though.

http://k-12distancelearning.blogspot.com