It used to be cheaper to fetch all students with a cab, offer them lunch, do the courses and bring them back home in a cab. It isn't the case any more , says prof. R. Van Overstraeten, Dir. Gen. of IMEC that took the initiative for co-ordinating the interuniversity course. The program builds on the experience of a company program at Alcatel and the expertise in teleconferencing for education of EuroPACE 2000.
Realtime interaction is possible.
Each site can intervene by voice activition. Technically more locations could be serviced after January 1st. Alcatel already distributes the courses to its sites at Charleroi, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Stuttgart. The courses are in English. Two thirds of the participants are found at the sponsoring companies.