Our Philosophy
Our program model is based on eLearning over the Internet. By "eLearning," we mean learning spaces on the Internet where students/instructors meet to participate in academic and social activities. One of the foundational pillars of eLearning is flexibility, where students can study when and where they want. That means that for the most part our students decide on their own what time of day they will work on their coursework and whether they want to work on it from work, from home, or while they're traveling. In other words, the system is set up to meet your specific needs.
Each class has its own website where all the instruction activities take place. Instruction takes place mostly through self-guided activities that allow the student to control his or her own educational process. The teacher organizes the course by preparing homework assignments, monitoring group activities, leading group discussions, assigning project topics, providing guidance to students one-on-one, answering questions, participating in discussions, etc. All of these activities take place over the Internet.

Some of the primary course components:
• New course material will be published to the website each
week. You can download this course material to your own PC
and work with it on the screen or print it out on paper. This
assures continuity and structure.
• Homework assignments will be published to the class website every week. You should answer these questions and turn your homework in to the instructor to be corrected. You'll get your
homework back a few days later with comments and
corrections.
• There are several ways that communication between students and instructors can take place:
- E-mail: where students e-mail a message directly to the
instructor.
- Open discussion groups: where students and instructors
participate in the discussion, ask and answer questions, etc.
- Chat channels: where groups of students arrange meetings,
discuss group work, plan other projects, solve problems, etc.
• Group work/projects over the Internet in groups of 3 - 5 students where the students are responsible for the group's progress
under the skilled guidance of the instructor. A number of tools
available on the Internet can be used to do group work, for
example Chat groups, discussion groups, working on shared
documents, Internet meeting programs, etc. All Internet
students will have their own instructor, who will answer
questions by e-mail, participate in online discussion groups,
grade and comment on homework assignments, etc. Each
instructor will have approximately 20 students for the whole
semester.

Teaching Assistants
All of our experience so far indicates that it's very important to assign students their own personal teaching assistant when they're taking classes over the Internet. Therefore, in addition to the course instructor, all students are also given their own teaching assistant who will work with them for the whole semester. This teaching assistant is responsible for a group of 20 students and has the following responsibilities: to serve as a discussion partner for projects and group work, to grade homework, to answer questions by e-mail and to contribute to group discussions.