VENTURA : Christian High to Air College-Level Courses
Students at Ventura County Christian High School will take college-level courses via interactive television when school starts Sept. 5.
Professors from Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., will appear live on a television monitor daily to teach higher math, sciences, physics and trigonometry, Principal Charlotte Mason said.
“I feel that this is an opportunity to have the kids exposed to sources of information that they can’t get in the regular classroom,” Mason said. “It’s exciting because interactive television is going to become more of a way of life. It’s the future.”
Educators at Bob Jones University, which is not affiliated with the Ventura school, developed the program. Many of the textbooks used at the Christian high school are published by the university.
Of the high school’s 70 students in grades nine through 11, up to 20 of them will be participating in the higher-level interactive courses, Mason said.
Students will see the professor on a television monitor, but the instructor will not see them. Each student will have a keyboard and be able to “raise” his or her hand for questions by pressing a button. The student’s name will then light up on the professor’s monitor. The students will speak into a microphone to address the instructor.
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