"Global Classroom“ – Pilot Project for Distance Education in Media Law

Since 2002 the annual global classroom seminars offered students from Hamburg, Toronto and Bologna an opportunity to get to know a new form of computer-aided learning and jointly analyse, discuss and advance legal issues in the virtual classroom. Recent topics of the seminars included “Internet Regulation and Free Flow of Information”, “Freedom of Expression and Privacy on the Internet”, “Broadcasting Regulation: Market Entry and Licensing” and “Youth Media Protection and Broadcasting: Constitutional Backgrounds and Regulation Concepts”. Global classroom seminars will continue to be offered regularly.

The institute received financial support for further developing this initiative and for the continuous advancement of the didactics in the context of the „Global Classroom” through the E-Learning Consortium Hamburg (ELCH) in 2004 and 2005. Since then, the offering has been financed from own resources.