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Fanshawe College expanding live-streaming courses

Fanshawe College is currently live-streaming two courses to classrooms in Walkerton, Stratford, and Kincardine, and a third program could be added this fall.

Academic Service Consultant Heather MacKenzie said they're working with Contact North to send the Early Childhood Education and the Personal Support Worker programs out, and they're hoping to adds their Business Entrepreneurship program in September.

"We've been able to offer the Early Childhood Education program and the personal support worker program. Both programs are being live-streamed from Clinton to Walkerton, Stratford and Kincardine. And we're hoping that we'll be offering our Business Entrepreneurship program as well as live-streaming that to Bruce County," she said.

MacKenzie said the technology allows them to have a camera in the Clinton classroom as well as the classroom on the receiving end of the feed;  so the students in Clinton can see the students in Stratford, Walkerton or Kincardine and the students in those classrooms can see the students in Clinton.

The platform allows them to ask questions, split the screen, share screen and be active on a whiteboard together.

MacKenzie said the students have embraced the concept and many of them have told her this has allowed them to take a post-secondary program that they otherwise would not have been able to take.

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