Fuqua School of Business Installs Green Video Conferencing Technology
Duke University Extends Global Learning With Cisco TelePresence Lecture Hall
Wall Street Journal
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The Fuqua School of Business has a new custom-built virtual lecture hall that provides students with access to the world's most influential leaders and extends the classroom environment. Virtual learning environments created by using Cisco TelePresence help colleges and universities embrace environmental sustainability goals through the reduction of travel, while extending the reach of university experts and attracting new students.
On February 10th, Duke University and Cisco unveiled a first-of-its-kind virtual lecture hall for students enrolled in Duke's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, N.C. Custom-built using Cisco TelePresence(TM) technology, the new lecture facility provides business school students with access to professors, business leaders and guest lecturers located around the globe, extending the in-person classroom environment across campuses and into the business world.
Cisco TelePresence provides students and professors with an immersive, lifelike communications experience that combines high-definition video and high-quality audio to realistically convey the body language and human elements that are critical to the interactive nature of a classroom. The new virtual lecture hall will also help presenters extend their expertise beyond the physical campus to students across multiple campuses as though they were sitting in the same room.
Duke University is striving to make use of teleconferencing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to travel. Click here for more information on the available phone and video conferencing technologies at Duke.