Our E-Learning Projects

The field of East Asian art history has usually been taught via lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and textbooks. Only rarely did the students have the luxury of encountering a variety of specialists in the field or of examining key objects of art, located in far-away museum storages. Even with excursions, it is often impossible to view restricted objects in museums and private collections. Now new media give us the chance to expand the pedagogical possibilities in our discipline. With new media, it is now possible to view, even in close-up detail, the rare objects that we could otherwise not examine in person and to have the luxury of being taught by specialists in other countries; experts that would have been financially impossible to invite. Through new media and the [here: please insert name of your program] programs developed by our technical team, it is now possible to expand the possibilities beyond the classroom and textbooks. Examples such as the Sumiyoshi Project, where a superb work of art in a Paris library was examined over a semester and series of interactive lectures from specialists in Asia, USA and Europe, have now been realized. We are currently working with E-Book projects and are continually looking for ways to expand into new directions in both research and teaching.