A new Pilot Advising Network promotes a similar form of access. By encouraging the sharing of information and ideas on Grounds, the University has taken an important step in recapturing the intimacy of Jefferson's University. Accordingly, the University network has been dubbed the Electronic Academical Village. Realizing the Potential of Computers in the Classroom University faculty are in the forefront in using computers as teaching tools. Providing students access to these pictures had been a cumbersome process, until he had them scanned into the new Digital Image Center at the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library.
Computer simulation has growing numbers of applications as a training tool.
Prospective teachers can hone their classroom manner using a computer simulation designed by Harold R. Strang , professor of education. Students communicate via keyboard with a computer-generated classroom, and, as in real life, their reactions to classroom distractions influence how well their charges learn. When the simulation is over, the computer compares the prospective teachers' performance with models of successful teaching practices. A human figure of either sex or any race can be depicted and viewed from any angle. In engineering, architecture, and other fields, computers are no longer merely teaching aids.