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'Telepresence' can help bring advanced courses to schools that don't offer them

  • Written by Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies, Vanderbilt University
imageRemote learning can be used for more than just education at home.Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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In schools where students want to take an advanced course that the school doesn’t offer, the telepresence model, which enables students in one school to...

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