How will high-speed Internet access benefit the region’s educational system?
Students, educators and parents are beginning to utilize the Internet as another component of their education, to better integrate classroom activities with parents and to connect classrooms with remote educational resources – such as electronic field trips, research materials and even remote classrooms. Historically, schools wishing to interconnect multiple facilities in a district or across a region, construction of fiber optic cables were required. This process requires several months to complete, with costs in the range of millions of dollars. And this only accomplishes connectivity between pre-determined facilities – what about connecting parents or future unknown sites quickly? Utilizing broadband links to the Internet promises to reduce cost and increasing the possible locations where educational resources can be tapped. Using the Internet as a resource for communication with educators in addition to using it as an educational resource is becoming a common practice. Video confer
