Virtual Core Initiative @Brooklyn College

Spring 1998 Pilot

During the Spring 1998 semester, several Core Studies classes were delivered partially "at a distance."

To accomplish this goal, the instructors involved in these pilots used e-mail, the Web, and conferencing/discussion software.

Please visit the following links to get a sense of how contemporary Internet technologies can be used to facilitate teaching and learning at a distance.

Core Studies 1 C2 - Classical Origins of Western Culture

Professor Hardy Hansen

<http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/hansen/coretop9.htm>

Core Studies 4 - The Shaping of the Modern World

Professor Donald Gerardi

<http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/dfg/core/cs4top.htm>

Core Studies 8.1 - Science at a Distance

Professor John Blamire

<http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/SDV2.html>

Caucus Conferencing System Introduction Page

Direct your browser here to self-register, log on, and explore the online discussions.

<http://phantom.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~caucus/caucus.htm>

These additional (non-BC) links further demonstrate constructive uses of the Web for instruction:

• Journey into Technological Integration
• Knowledge and Reality: Professor Valerie Hardcastle, Virginia Tech
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: The Florida Center for Instructional Technology (College of Education, University of South Florida)
• Cruising the Information SuperHighway

Brooklyn College Links

• Foreign Language Resources on the Internet
• Library Research in an Electronic Age
• Brooklyn College Home Page
• Academic Home Page (Dept./Core Studies/Faculty)