Harvard Launches 'virtual Classroom' For Students Anywhere

BOSTON — The newest classroom at Harvard's business school has no desks or chairs. Instead, the professor teaches facing a towering digital screen that stretches from wall to wall, filled with the live video feeds of up to 60 students tuned in from their computers.In the futuristic classroom, housed in a television studio 2 miles from campus, class plays out like a giant video conference.Students can jump in to ask questions or respond to their classmates.