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Smart Classroom
Sacred Heart has expanded access to theological education through its smart classroom suite completed in August 2003. The suite features a distance learning classroom, a videoconference room and a control room that houses sophisticated videoconferencing technology. Sacred Heart now is able to broadcast its theology, philosophy and ministry courses to any educational institution, nationally and internationally, that has standard videoconferencing capabilities. Using a T-1 multiple phone line, video monitors, cameras, microphones and a large screen projector, students at offsite locations can see, hear and interact with Sacred Heart professors and students in full motion video and audio, and in real time.
The first two interactive courses for commuter lay students—Introduction to Theology and Introduction to Sacred Scripture—are being broadcast this fall term to Sacred Heart's newest satellite location at Macomb Community College, Clinton Township, Michigan. Sacred Heart soon will offer its educational resources to distance learning students in the Washington, D.C. area, through a hookup with the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, and to the Lansing, Michigan, area, through the Michigan Catholic Conference located on North Capital Street. Plans are being made to connect with videoconferencing sites throughout Metro Detroit and across the state.
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