January 29, 2008. The Earth Institute's Commission on Education for International Development Professionals and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) launch the Global Classroom: Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Practice. An experiment in distributed learning, the project organizes and delivers lectures and assignments for a master's-level course that engages hundreds of students at a dozen universities around the world.

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