This paper summarizes and discusses Waseda University's Cross-Cultural Distance Learning, or CCDL, program, in which EFL students from two different universities engage in group synchronous video discussions online. The author provides a first person perspective on his own experiences teaching the program over several years, and discusses issues he has had teaching the material; the issues discussed are primarily related to class management and lesson planning, rather than to educational pedagogy. First, the program itself is described, and then the technical facilities are introduced. The paper goes on to describe how students participate in joint sessions with the other university's students, and continues by summarizing the contents of the three CCDL course books: Media, Social and Global Issues, and International Career Path. The paper briefly discusses CCDL's video conferences, and concludes by addressing issues the author has had with student attitudes towards the topics, and with fitting the CCDL program into EFL conversation courses.
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Language, Culture, and Information Technology, pp.73-
