When environmental scientist Chris Shuler gives his lecture on environmental pollution in the Samoa Islands at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, students on the archipelago, almost 4,000 kilometers away, can also listen. Because Shuler appears in the Community College of American Samoa as a three-dimensional hologram – a new concept from the university for virtualizing teaching content.
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The first official lecture on the so-called HoloCampus took place this week – including a welcome by the Hawaiian university president David Lassner. “The work that we have been doing since January has borne fruit today,” Lassner said, according to media reports.
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The program on the HoloCampus is intended to give students in American Samoa the opportunity to collect credit points at the University of Hawaii without having to be there in person.
University President Lassner hopes that the project will open up new ways for different universities to work together – not only in the Pacific region, but also worldwide.
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In order to be able to realize the project, however, considerable technical effort was necessary: In the run-up, an underwater cable almost 15,000 kilometers long was laid.
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