Broadband teaching gets boost in Idaho schools | Local News | Idaho Statesman

Carol Phillips, a senior at Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian, is taking Calculus 2 for both high school and college credit. Her instructor, David Gural, is eight miles away at Eagle High School.

She and three other students gather in a classroom with an aide to watch Gural on a large screen as he teaches the 40 students in his Eagle High class. If Phillips has a question, she can raise her hand and Gural will see it. If he wants to know what his Rocky Mountain students are thinking, he need only ask.

Student-teacher interactions like these - via video conferences over a dedicated broadband network - may become a big part of education in Idaho...