Experiencing a Computer Supported College Course– “Creating Culture Identity through Food and Language: United States and China in Dialogue”

Computer science and network technology are bringing about enormous new challenges, opportunities, possibilities and changes to education, typically the classroom teaching-learning based on printed textbooks and blackboard, so much so that the ideology and practices of education, ranging from theoretical research on education, educational administration, curriculum development and evaluation, and construction and using of teaching and learning materials, to teaching style and methodology and learning strategy, etc., are undergoing tremendous influence from computer and network based media. I myself (Bangxiu Xie) have experienced an internationally collaborative course which was made possible by a variety of electronic media, like websites, email and voice-mail service, and skype service. The impacts of computer and network techniques upon the course cover the whole process of the development and implementation of the course.