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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, December 20, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/12/2001122001u.htm

Researcher Sees a Big Role for Virtual Reality in Distance Education
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist who coined the term "virtual reality," says the technology he helped pioneer will, in the near future, become more prominent in distance education: Students in remote classrooms, for instance, might soon listen to lectures from life-size, three-dimensional images of professors who are hundreds of miles away. And the professors might see similar images of distant students raising their hands and asking questions....

 



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