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

In cooperation with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg, the Hans Bredow Institute is working on media law projects for education and further education. A central component – alongside the LL.M project presented below – is the E-Learning project „Global Classroom“, in the context of which the Institute has developed an E-Learning tool („Global Classroom“) for using virtual forms of teaching in legal studies. It is based on a software platform specially programmed for it and has been developed further since 2002. Since this time, the seminars: „Internet Regulation and Free Flow of Information“, „Freedom of Expression and Privacy on the Internet“, „Broadcasting Regulation: Market Entry and Licensing“ und zuletzt „Youth Media Protection and Broadcasting: Constitutional Backgrounds and Regulation Concepts” have offered students from Hamburg, Toronto and Bologna the possibility of becoming acquainted with a new form of computer aided learning.

The Institute received financial support for developing this initiative further and for ongoing development 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 our own resources. The transnational teaching form is also intended to be integrated into the LL.M programme „European and Transnational Media and Telecommunications Law“ (see below).