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Friday, October 19, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101901u.htm Students in 3 States Learn Together, Using Tools Created to Let Scientists Collaborate By JEFFREY R. YOUNG When students look to the front of the classroom during a University of Alaska course about parallel computing, they see video projections of classmates and professors in Montana and New Mexico. The three groups -- all sitting in similar high-tech classrooms -- can see and hear one another, and a professor at any of the locations can control what images are on the projection screens at all three sites. The course, which is jointly offered by the three universities this semester, is one of the first to use a new set of Internet collaboration tools that blend videoconferencing with remotely controlled computers at other sites....
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