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Show First time ever TV links students locally with 'IP Fall quarter University of Utah continuing education students stu-dents in Bountiful may attend a physics course taught on campus cam-pus without coming to campus. Physics 101 is the first computer-enhanced course to be telecast from the University to a Davis-U of U classroom in the Stoker School Building in Boun-' tiful. "It's the wave of the future," says Stacy Christensen, off-campus off-campus program developer for the U's Division of Continuing Education. The Bountiful classroom is linked to a campus classroom via an audio-graphic remote delay system in which there's two-way interaction between the teaching site and the remote site. Whatever What-ever the instructor says or writes on the "blackboard" in the campus classroom can be seen and heard by students in the classroom in Bountiful, and whatever a student says or writes on the "blackboard" in Bountiful can be seen and heard by the other students in Bountiful and by the students and instructor on campus as well. Sidney Rudolph, visiting associate professor of physics, designed de-signed the system and has already taught a "pilot" course using the new equipment. "This class wouldn't be available to people at Stoker any other way," he says, "because of declining manpower man-power resources in the University." The system enables the instructor to teach students who otherwise wouldn't sign up for the course becuase they don't want to or can't drive to campus to take it. And the capabilities aren't limited to just one remote site. Students who took the "pilot" course responded very favorably favor-ably on a questionnaire, saying they would take another course via remote instruction and would also recommend it to others. The course is listed in the DCE fall quarter Class Edition under the "Davis U of U Program for Higher Education." |