Educational Technology

July 8, 2010

NCSU creates, Duke adopts ‘virtual’ labs for computing

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

by James Gallagher, Triangle Business Journal

Much like the phone booth before it, the erstwhile college computer lab is going the way of the dinosaur. As laptop computers become as ubiquitous on campus as lost umbrellas, fewer students are spending time in computer labs, except for when they need to access expensive, high-tech software the colleges provide. Now the folks at N.C. State University are creating virtual computer labs that enable students to access such programs from their own computers without having to purchase the software.

http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/06/28/story11.html?b=1277697600%5E3555431

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