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Monday, June 03, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002060301u.htm 3 Iowa Universities Go Online to Preserve Language Courses MICHAEL ARNONE Iowa's three state universities -- Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa -- have formed a partnership to jointly teach Eastern European languages and culture via an Internet-based videoconferencing system. The Iowa Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Distance Learning Consortium is scheduled to offer its first courses next spring. The consortium will offer language courses in Czech, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian. It will also offer courses, taught in English, on regional culture, history, and politics. Participants on the three campuses will interact through two-way audio and video sent over the commercial Internet....
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