Borderless education with high speed networks

Information and communication technologies have connected and brought people together in several ways. In the last decades, the way people were able to communicate and exchange information has changed everything. As the Internet started to grow, the IP protocol became the de facto standard in networks, more and more applications have started their journey to bring faster, more reliable and powerful communication and collaboration mechanisms to people all over the world. First it was just an E-mail, then Instant Messaging as a way to quickly discuss things, later real-time and live Voice over IP. Currently a new phenomenon is being seen and it is real-time Video and Voice over IP. By 2014, video is predicted to form 91% of the global Internet traffic. The power of video is in face-to-face communication, emotions, gestures, body language, etc. The paper shows how the e-learning can be transformed from only reading online content into studying online using advanced videoconferencing - TelePresence. It is based on a case study on using Cisco TelePresence at the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE), Slovakia, Europe and at Paradise Valley Unified School District (PVUSD), Phoenix, Arizona, USA to develop and provide a course that is held by an instructor located at TUKE to students located at PVUSD.