BUILDING BILINGUAL BI-CONTINENTAL E-LEARNING COURSES

Abstract

The authors have been actively engaged in E-learning starting in 1996, at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, a public university on the East coast and Shanghai Television University, an open university in Shanghai. We have reported on this work in [Chi, Klibaner, 1999, 2001, 2003]. This collaboration has been expanded to include a bilingual course offered simultaneously at both institutions. Of the many technical issues involved in such a simultaneous e-learning course, the time difference is the only one which remains immutable. This paper describes our experience with a hybrid course in Database Theory offered bilingually in Chinese and English and a Windows based terminal software laboratory.

Citation

Zhang, Z., Klibaner, R.M., Chi, E.C. and Yuan, K.-P. (2006), "BUILDING BILINGUAL BI-CONTINENTAL E-LEARNING COURSES", Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 36-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAOUJ-02-01-2006-B004