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A Cell Phone Power Point Lecture

Cyber University of Japan is offering a class via mobile phones. The lesson focuses on the mysteries of the pyramids, and it available with computer or mobile for phone. For classes for personal computers, the lecture downloads play on the monitor as text and images in the middle; a smaller video of the lecturer shows in the corner, complete with sound. The cell phone version, which pops up as streaming video on the handset's tiny screen, plays just the Power Point images.

Cyber University is Japan's first university to be entirely online. It opened in April with government approval to give bachelor's degrees and has 1,850 students. Softbank, a Japanese mobile carrier, owns 71% of the University. The pyramid lecture--and any that may follow if the concept is expanded-can, for now, only be viewed on Softbank phones.

"Our duty as educators is to respond to the needs of people who want to learn," said Sakuji Yoshimura, who heads Cyber University

Source: AP via Yahoo News, Cell phone college class opens in Japan

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