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Sunday, October 22, 2006
High Schoolers Get Virtual Lessons on Japan, U.S.-Japan Relations - KENJI G. TAGUMA, Nichi Bei Times
High school seniors and juniors can now take a course at the prestigious (and pricey) Stanford University, thanks to an innovative program designed to pique their interest in Japanese history. And they don’t even have to leave the comfort of their homes, much less pay massive college tuition. Sponsored by the United States-Japan Foundation and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), the Reischauer Scholars Program is a distance-learning course that utilizes the modern technology of the Internet to captivate a select number of students who log into virtual classrooms and participate in moderated discussion boards.
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