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The Kermit Hall Videoconference Center with state-of-the-art Polycom HD technology is the larger room with up to 20 participants. For the past several years, fourth-quarter OSU Spanish students and their fourth-year counterparts at New Albany have studied Spanish language and culture together via this videoconferencing facility. OSU students are currently taking a course in Uzbek offered by Indiana University. There are several other language courses like Tibetan, Mongolian, Czech, etc that are administered by the Committee of Institutional Cooperation (CIC) – a cooperation of several Big Ten universities, University of Chicago and more - that are housed in this facility. By sharing resources and technology, these languages have been more accessible to learners all over the country and even abroad. In the spring of 2006, Professor Danielle Marx-Scouras hosted a videoconference between her advanced-level French students and a group of advanced-level French students at the University of Damascus. Both groups read the work L'Hôte by Albert Camus in advance of the conference, and then discussed it during the videoconference while being monitored by their professors. Professor Marx-Scouras was able to do a follow up to this course in 2009 and hosted renown French musicians Moussu T over videoconference for a musical performance and information session with the learners. This session was first of its kind and a landmark event in language education. Reservation Request for Hall Videoconferencing Center |