Building community, real and virtual

In a University of San Francisco course on Building Christian Community vid eotapes of weekly sessions were exchanged with students in Taiwan and stude nts communicated over the internet. Students learned how to report on the c ontent, critique the process, and to apply principles. They grew more and m ore comfortable in class discussions, interrupting and contradicting each o ther and the teacher. Their discussions via e-mail grew in breadth of inter est and in depth of content. Goals, strategies, and results of the course a re critically assessed. Several advantages of distance learning via the int ernet emerged.