Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, August 16, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001081601u.htm

High-Speed Networks Let a Music Professor in New York Teach a Student in Oklahoma
By FLORENCE OLSEN

Erin Dunn rests her cello after playing a saraband from a Bach suite. Her teacher for the day, listening and watching from hundreds of miles away, praises her: "Beautiful, Erin. Really beautiful." He is David Geber, chairman of the string department and a member of the cello and chamber-music faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. He has heard Ms. Dunn play before in similar circumstances. "You know, each time I hear you play," he says, "your bow arm gets more powerful."... The Manhattan School of Music and the University of Oklahoma are among a select few institutions that are having experimental musical exchanges over high-speed Internet2 networks....

 



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