An initiative in Maine is using technology to provide advanced placement programming to high school students in rural areas. The Maine Distance Learning Project “identifies Maine teachers and schools that are interested in offering Advanced Placement programming to be delivered over distance to students in Maine via the state-wide ATM network during the 2005/2006 school year.”
According to a recent article in Newsweek, Reaching Rural Students, support was provided by the University of Maine. The University set up “a network of cameras in AP classes like Brendan Murphy’s calculus and statistics class. These classes were broadcast to five other schools across the state. 90 other schools have a set up like Carrabec’s. Each site’s classroom has a three-foot television screen split into quadrants, and two cameras in each room.”