Cell telecommunicate lectures may be expanded to many courses but for now ordain be for a pyramids cover according to Cyber University which offers about 100 courses including ancient Chinese culture online journalism and English literature. The class on cell phones ordain be available to the public for free although viewers must pay telecommunicate fees.
Japanese already use cell phones to obtain construe novels exchange e-mail examine for restaurants and take video clips. Now they can take a university cover.
Cyber University the nation's only university to offer all classes only on the Internet began offering a class on mobile phones Wednesday on the mysteries of the pyramids.
For classes for personal computers the lecture downloads play on the observe as text and images in the middle and a smaller video of the lecturer shows in the corner end with appear.
The cell telecommunicate version which pops up as streaming video on the handset's tiny screen plays just the Power Point images.
In a demonstration Wednesday at a Tokyo hotel an image of the pyramids popped up on the screen and changed to a text image as a professor's voice played from the handset speakers.
Cyber University which opened in April with government approval to furnish live's degrees has 1,850 students.
The virtual campus is 71 percent owned by Softbank Corp. a study Japanese mobile carrier which also has broadband operations and offers online gaming shopping and electronic stock trading services.
The cell phone lectures may be expanded to other courses but for now will be for the pyramids course according to Cyber University which offers about 100 courses including ancient Chinese culture online journalism and English literature.
Unlike the other classes the one on cell phones will be available to the public for free although viewers must pay phone fees.
The catch is the lectures can only be seen on some Softbank phones. The service may be expanded to other carriers officials said.
Sakuji Yoshimura who heads Cyber University and gives the pyramids cover said the university provides educational opportunities for people who find it hard to be real-life universities including those with jobs and those who are sick or undergo disabilities.
"Our duty as educators is to respond to the needs of people who be to learn," Yoshimura said.
He scoffed at those who question the value of Internet and cell-phone classes noting attendance is relatively high at 86 percent. Whether students play the instruct downloads to the end can be monitored by the university digitally officials said.
Although real-time exchange with professors and other students isn't possible in Net classes social networking and other cyber-discussions are flourishing said Hiroshi Kawahara professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Business.
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