You stood in line to check out tapes, then waited to sit in a cubicle to don a set of headphones and do a language drill. At Princeton University you can forgo that inconvenience by visiting the virtual language lab on the Web. The physical limitations of the traditional language lab are gone. The tapes have been digitized and are available from a Web server via streaming audio. And there's no waiting for a cubicle to sit in.
Any student can do language lab, anywhere they want, any time they want.
Less staff to hire and manage, and less mechanical equipment to maintain. More importantly, the virtual language lab offers incredible convenience and accessibility. At Vanderbilt University and George Washington University, over ten thousand students are taking over a thousand courses delivered with Prometheus, an advanced courseware application built for the Web. That's pretty exciting. But what's really amazing is how quickly it all happened.