For the past four years, students at the College of Staten Island have been able to attend classes in Turkey, China, Greece, Italy, and South Africa without having to leave the comforts of the College's beautiful 204-acre campus. Thanks to the Virtual Classroom Project, where students at CSI link to higher education institutions in other countries, and students at those colleges also connect with them, everyone involved gains insights to other parts of the world that they previously only might have imagined.

"Chance encounters between two Shakespeare enthusiasts led to a widely successful course this spring on the bard, taught by Cavanagh and supplemented via Skype by a veteran actor and lecturer."

"The classrooms can do international videoconferencing, too; one class in the spring will feature interaction with a class in South Africa, says Mark Kornbluh, dean of the University of Kentucky's College of Arts and Sciences."

Interested in distance and cross-cultural learning (using videoconferencing and web programs);