Or they find one or two partners in other countries and call their work international or global, when such collaboration remains a long process of building mutual understanding with intercultural sensitivity. WebCT dominates the huge market for courseware, and Nagoya University has produced a new Japanese language version. There are many other platforms, such as free and paying versions of Blackboard. Incidentally, some of us have been participating in entirely online academic conferences for 5 years, a great concept especially for those outside of North America, but still little utilized. Our NPO WAOE also conducts directors' meetings, annual members' meetings and elections as well as everyday communications entirely online.
Officers are in ten countries and have never met offline.
Teachers can seek permission and plan for the green light by learning about online education and practicing it para-institutionally while still conducting regular classes such as EFL if possible in a computer lab.