Dear Colleagues,

I am preparing an online course on Japanese politics for University of Washington students and would like to ask for your advice. As the advent of online courses seems likely to affect many of us on this list, I thought it might be a good topic to raise here.

This is the first course I have developed for an online environment, and I would like to learn from the experiences of others who might have gone further already. Has anyone taught a course on Japanese politics online already?

More generally, are there worthy online resources, exercises or public domain (or University of Washington library owned) videos you think I should be aware of in course development?

Please also feel free to contact me off the SSJ Forum at

pekkanen[at]uw.edu

Thank you.

Robert Pekkanen
Associate Professor
University of Washington