Learning Without Borders

by Evelyn Beck and Sharon M. Lightner IS TODAY’S COLLEGE classroom flexible enough to include 20 students at four colleges in four countries attending the same class together each week? With the help of technology, this was the approach of an unusual class called Experiential International Accounting, which was attended by students from the United States, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Spain. The course was the brainchild of Sharon Lightner, an accounting professor at San Diego State University (SDSU). Lightner had long wanted to do an international class in this format that focused on worldwide differences in financial reporting standards, and […]