So far in this academic year, EuNC has offered 120 courses: almost 30% of these were offered off-campus. This means that the EuNC faculty needs to travel from the campus or home learning centre to teach at other locations.
From the campus in Büsingen Jason Veach, John Haines and Antonie Holleman have travelled to the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal to teach various courses.
The programme in the Netherlands has received John Moore (Hungary) and Jayme Himmelwright (Portugal) as visiting faculty.
In the CIS (Russia; Ukraine, Armenia; Central Asia) Davide Cantarella, Cliff Wright, Olga Druhjinina and Alexei Shipovalov have been travelling to various locations to teach courses
An example of a creative solution to the issue of travel was developed in the Southeastern Europe Field. A field course was offered in Romania taught by Michael Hudson and then recorded and transmitted via Internet. It was then presented (with translation) in locations in Bulgaria, Albania and Kosova, with each having a facilitator. This was also further supported by online discussions between class sessions. These are just some examples of how EuNC is thinking creatively to face the challenges of distance and travel. EuNC is very thankful for faculty who are willing to travel to teach courses, many times on top of their normal load.
Republished from EuNC's "In Touch" Newsletter, April 2010
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