Skip class at Tri C this fall and your professor just might show up on your cell phone.
KRUEGER: "Often instructors would like to send messages to remind them we have a speaker next week, we have homework due"
That's instructor Jan Krueger demonstrating how she'll use new text and web enabled tools to keep track of students in her court-reporting class, the first Tri-C class to be offered completely online.
KRUEGER: "Just because I don't see their faces, they're not invisible to me."
The school bought an assortment of new classroom gadgetry with a $25,000 grant from AT&T. Real time video and podcasts will be used for hybrid classes courses that mix in person and and online classes, and students will be able to dial up a web tutor for some extra help or catch a lecture on re-run to study for a test. Online, hybrid and on-campuses courses will cost the same.
Kymberli Hagelberg, 90.3