Article on Global Education

Young, Kevin P. "The Internet: Opening Higher Education's Door to the World and Ushering in the Age of Transformation." Black Issues in Higher Education 12 (1995): 16. ProQuest. ProQuest. LCCC Library, Schnecksville, PA. 20 Apr. 2007 <." rel=nofollow>http://www.proquest.com>.

Brevard Community College, a nationally recognized leader in science and technology initiatives with some 3,700 students already participating in distance learning telecourses, was a natural pilot site for the WCC, says Jacques Dubois, joint director of Distance Learning at BCC and the University of Central Florida, a four-year institution. Rio Salado College of Phoenix, an 18-year-old, two-year school with more than 9,500 students, has offered a degree-credit marketing course -- via the Internet and audioconferencing -- to Australia. One student has already taken a course from Kuwait, plans are under way for an English-based technical writing course over the `Net in Russia, and Hong Kong might be in the future, says Ryan Carstens, the school's dean of Information Technologies Services. In fact, information now readily accessed by students throughout the campus at popular touch-screen kiosks is now finding its way -- via the Internet -- to personal computers in dorm rooms, libraries and computer labs. This trend joins the hundreds of Home Page sites schools are now developing for the Internet's World-Wide Web, such as at Rio Salado College (www.rio.maricopa.edu).