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Supercourse has provided facilities that
permit scientist and lecturers to “chat” in real time, to present lectures
in classes thousands of miles away, and even answer participants’ questions.
Incorporating video and sound as part of research communications
can evoke the scientists. The telecommunication between teachers and
students who have never met each other not in the real world but in the
cyberspace is an unprecedented privilege introduced to the world of
scientific communication by Supercourse. This is what the Economist said
“the Death of Distance”. Those who benefit from this greatly are the
developing countries in which a lot of factors contribute to poor
information sharing among scientists. |