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Fuqua's Global Conference System uses high
performance video technology to enable real-time, life-size
conferencing between its North American and European facilities."Telepresence"
technology allows staff and faculty to meet on an as-needed
basis by walking into a conference room which is connected
to another conference room across the ocean.
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The pioneering program in our distance learning endeavor was the
Global
Executive MBA in the Fuqua
School. This highly successful combination of direct human interaction
and time spent interacting over the Internet has been widely admired
and emulated. Fuqua is the most visible but by no means the only
one of our schools linking place with cyberspace. The School
of Nursing in May graduated its first class of students from
an innovative program linking Duke medical facilities with nurses
in underserved areas of rural, eastern North Carolina, allowing
those nurses to become advanced practice providers while remaining
in their home communities. The School
of Medicine connects doctors and researchers with their counterparts
in southwest Florida and Saudi Arabia. The Law
School has been rightly lauded as a leader in developing technologies
to provide legal learning with online support and making technology
useful for apprentice lawyers. The Nicholas
School and the Divinity
School are looking at ways to use computers imaginatively to
reach out to mid-career professionals far from campus. The Pratt
School of Engineering is exploring information technology to
make it easier for students to study abroad for a semester, despite
the demanding regimen of the engineering curriculum.
We are also creating ISIS, a certificate program in Information
Science and Information Studies, the purpose of which is to
provide a forum for students and faculty to think critically about
the role and function of information technology and to broaden our
students’ understanding of the issues they will face in their
professions.
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