The Asian Game Village project is an education project for Chinese language study at MIT. It aims at building an archive that presents students with video clips about the life in the Beijing Asian Game Village, through which students can encounter real spoken Chinese, get trained in listening comprehension, learn new vocabulary and phrases, and understand various facets of the current Chinese society and culture through these multi-media materials. more

The Elements of Style class taught in the Literature program aims to research how the daily quest for style has affected an understanding of the term’s connotations, and the idea of literary style. In the class, students will explore representations of style, both in fashion and in 20th-century literature. This archive intends to be growing archive of visual materials related to style collected by the students, which will result in the creation of a documented look book. more

The heart of Europe: Belgium unveiled by its contemporary artists is a multimedia archive that features the personal stories of established and less established Belgian contemporary artists and introduces students of French to Belgian culture and history through Belgian contemporary arts. This online teaching resource increases learning about this trilingual country as it is used as an engine for self-discovery and self-teaching activities by beginning to advanced-level students. more

The Global Shakespeare project allows students and researchers to explore dozens of Asian theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare plays by addressing the processes of cultural production and East-West interaction on a global and local scale. more

This archive investigates the history and cultural significance of revolving doors, amongst others through its representation in popular media forms. more

The Beijing Film Academy Project aims at providing students with a perspective on the teaching methods of and artworks produced at the Animation School of the Beijing Film Academy. more

Contempor@rt is a project on the creation and interpretation of contemporary art by young artists from Quebec and Paris. more

The Eurasian History and Memory Visual Archive presents a range of historical documents that explore issues such as Eurasian identity, migration, and social life. more

This archive provides access to the music and words of Japanese hip-hop artists, as well as some contrasting examples from the worlds of Japanese pop, folk, rock, _enka_ and childrens music. more

España de cerca is a Web-based project on Spanish life and culture centered on a collection of video interviews cross-referenced by topic and annotated with vocabulary glosses and links to relevant materials on the World Wide Web. Through these personal testimonials students explore issues such as education, work, family life, youth, women's roles, tradition and change in contemporary Spain. more

Au-delà du regard: rencontres multiethniques is a Web-based module that contains original video interviews, live music and video footage of sites gathered in and around Paris during the summers of 1999, 2000 and 2001. The core material draws from interviews with more than thirty young people from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. more

Cultura is a Web-based, intercultural project situated in a language class that connects American students with other students in different countries in order to explore cultural notions form more than one perspective. more

The Marais Museum project presents students and researchers with an archive of more than 550 visual documents and 800+ text documents related to the history of the Marais neighborhood in Paris. more

Berliner sehen is a hypermedia documentary for German Studies that relies on an extensive collection of shared archives and the Internet to form a collaborative learning environment for beginning to advanced-level students. more