Signs of the Times

• Harvard to offer minicourses (vignettes) to alumni (4/06/01)

• Wharton School will team with France’s Top Business School (INSEAD) to train executives (3/29/01)

• Japanese government will permit credit-bearing online courses in Japan (3/29/01)

• Multinational consortium of universities to work with Thomson Learning (online and satellite television) 12/15/00

• Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale plan distance education venture - University Alliance for Life-Long Learning (10/6/00)