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contact with each other and share the experience you have had at this
session.
As part of the educational aims we started the Online Student Project. For
this first year we decided to work with one group of online students who came
from all over the world. They followed all the lectures through a chat room with
Live Video Stream. They were able to discuss the content of the lectures during
and after with other online students and their Co-ordinator. The online Co-ordinator
then passed questions to the lecturers. When the participants in Olympia
were doing their group discussion, the online students were also doing the same
with their own on online Co-ordinator. This year we had fifteen people register an
interest in being an online student, of which nine actually took part and the
level of the students was very high including Ph.D. students and previous IOA
postgraduate participants. At 2 a.m. in the morning when a lot of you would be
living it up in Olympia, some of these students were giving up their sleep to
join us on line. Still, at least none of these had to climb over the fence to get
to their beds. Next year we hope with the help of partner universities to serve up
to 60 online students.
With regard to research all Live Streams from 2000 and 2001 are available in the
archives so whenever you want you can replay them. The text from all lectures is
also available in Acrobat Reader format. Prof. Norbert Müller has also given his
permission for us to make available for Internet visitors the summaries of all the
lectures since 1961. We would like to thank Prof. Müller for this and also for the
complete history of the IOA he wrote, which will also be published on the site. In
the next couple of months more historical publications will become available, so
that this site can become your starting point for research in Olympism.
Here are some statistics about this year's Live Stream. We produced:
• 27 hours of Live Stream.
• 35 hours of Archive Stream.
• More then 400 pictures of this year's session have been placed on the site
and will shortly be available for download by you at home.
• More than 700 people are now registered to use the forum and/or the Live
Chat.
• The online students took part in eight group discussions and completed
the same questions as you for both cycles. The level of their answers was
extremely high.
Finally, we would like to thank:
• President Filaretos, for taking the risk to work with us and to open the IOA
for the world. If nobody in this world has the courage to change things,
then things will always remain the same. He had the courage and with his
support we were able to open the work of the IOA to the world through
the Internet.
• Dean Georgiadis, whom we could always go to whenever we had
a problem, and especially the first time last year, when we had more
problems than one person can normally handle.
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