In January, Rutgers unveiled two new high-tech classrooms it hopes could become more common across its campuses. Equipped with cameras, high definition video screens and 32 microphones, the lecture halls allow the university to put one professor in two different classrooms. The "immersive synchronous lecture" initiative is aimed at easing students' reliance on the Rutgers bus system. Or, as administrators like to say, "moving ideas instead of people," said Paul Hammond, Rutgers' director of digital initiatives.
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