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Students in Washington, D.C. and Doha, Qatar interact in telepresence classroom

April 3, 2008 | |

Separated by 7,000 miles, most students at Georgetown University’s Washington, D.C. campus had never visited the Arab emirate of Qatar and wouldn’t have considered it the heart of Middle East diplomacy. That is until the university opened its School of Foreign Service in Doha and deployed Polycom RealPresence Experience (RPX) HD classrooms on each campus. With HD video, voice and content-sharing conferencing, Georgetown is bridging the distance with a natural interactive-learning environment – providing consistent-learning opportunities for students on both campuses, whilst erasing collaboration barriers and cultural divides.

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