For over 5000 thousand years of recorded history, learning has been centered around one basic concept - the classroom. Learning has always worked best when students and teachers have been gathered together in one meeting place so that they can interact and exchange ideas.

The greatest challenge to education has been the separation of students and their instructor by the tyranny of distance. When it is no longer feasible to bring the students to the teacher or vice versa, distance education technology has helped fill the void. Until recently, though, the costs were high and the interaction limited.

The advent of the Internet as a medium for teaching presents exciting opportunities and an entirely new low-cost method of delivery based on traditional classroom principles. Explore the possibilities of on-line learning with Dr. Barry Ellis in his white paper which was delivered 'virtually' at the North American Web Developers Conference in 1997 (NAWEB 97).

Northlands School Division No. 61's distance education budget was thousands of dollars per year to fly teachers and administrators in and out of the isolated communities in which they worked.

Videoconferencing could rectify this situation easily, but for the lack of a digital communications infrastructure to carry the signal. And there's limits to what you can do with a single analog phone line. Or is there? Come see our solution to this problem.