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the Department of Information Technology’s Educational Technology Division.
Ober, with Educational Technology Division’s Dorothy Boland and Bill Rodgers, coordinated and scheduled the network. The Richmondbased Teledynamics, Inc. firm was selected to provide and install the systems. Sharing graduate engineering classes electronically is not new. The Cooperative Graduate Engineering program was begun in 1983 and used Virginia Public Television Stations’ Microwave Network to transmit classes to Richmond students via live television. The program was expanded the next year to serve business in Northern Virginia and Norfolk. However, the system was limited by geographical restrictions.
“The major advantages of using this new technology are significant savings in travel expenses and increased employee productivity,” said Rodgers. “The number of sites using downlinks will probably in
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