Athens, Ohio-based Ohio University last summer debuted a graduate student course that uses the Internet to provide direct video instruction from a university hunger expert in Khartoum, Sudan, on the topic of how best to provide emergency food and nutrition relief efforts. Offered by Ohio University’s African Studies Program and the
Institute for the African Child, “Feeding in Emergency Situations” is taught from Sudan via the Internet by Osama Awad Salih, an associate professor in health and nutrition at Al-Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman, Sudan. The course was developed using the technical expertise of Ohio University’s Center for
International Studies Associate Director for Instructional Technology and Design Ismail Elmahdi. He says that the summer course’s success will lead it to be offered on a regular basis at Ohio University potentially as one of African Studies’ core courses and that he hopes to increase the program’s technical .......