Along with colleagues at Kansas State University and the University of Nebraska, OSU educators are giving their students a depth of instruction and student interaction that has rarely been done before. We're getting the knowledge of three instructors in one class. The video equipment allows the lecture to flow real smoothly. You don't notice that you are learning from an instructor in Kansas or Nebraska. Tom Wolpert, associate professor of botany and plant pathology at OSU and one of three instructors, says that by tapping into experts at other institutions the overall level of instruction is significantly improved.
People are able to speak to their strengths.
It expands the opportunity to participate in a cutting edge discussion. But in the past that usually was done with crude telephone lines or costly, cumbersome satellite transmissions. Internet2 has changed all that, experts say. But with the Internet2 we can provide world-class education at an affordable price. The technology being used, Williams said, is of such high speed that it produces a broadcast-quality video image.