Online Learning Update

June 13, 2011

Online distance learning no longer a far-fetched idea for colleges

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Debra Erdley, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

On a warm spring evening, a dozen graduate students slowly file into a second-floor classroom in Hamburg Hall at Carnegie Mellon University. More than 10,300 miles away, it’s early morning in Adelaide, Australia. When class convenes in Pittsburgh at 6 p.m., it’s 7:30 a.m. for the folks Down Under. Yet, a group of students in Adelaide is joining associate teaching professor Tim Zak’s class in Pittsburgh for a graduate business course in strategy development, courtesy of a real-time video hook-up that couldn’t be sharper if the students were in adjoining rooms.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_739650.html

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