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People often think of virtual classrooms as liberation from the standard "brick-and- mortar" education. A growing number of public and charter school districts offer public education totally online. These projects are magnets for students and parents who want to flee the limitations of the schoolhouse, and Web-based video conferencing is critical to their functionality.
But in another twist of the formula, Scott County Schools, a district in Tennessee, uses distance learning within its real-life classrooms. The district had eighth-graders at five schools, but only one teacher qualified to teach algebra, and that teacher worked at the high school. To solve the problem, the county deployed a Web video-conferencing system from Tandberg, a video-conferencing provider, in 2007. The system connected 68 students from the five schools for one math class period. Grants and free services from partnering organizations made the project possible.
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