 I'm Sam Carter, professor emeritus from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, taught here almost four decades, forty years. I was one of the earliest to do online education and have really found it quite remarkable and enjoy doing it not only in Vancouver but across Canada and other parts of the world. The first online course I did was the history of Canadian design. I was completely intimidated by websites and all of the kinds of options that just fell on us. So, how do you orchestrate a course? Well, you have fifteen weeks and I started thinking, well, where do I start and where do I end and how do I come up with ways of engaging people into the literature and how do I do this visually and engaging and all of the things that we want to achieve in our regular classrooms. The strategies that I use to engage students have to do with the live chat where I make sure that everyone shows up. We usually have about twenty to twenty-five in a particular course and to get them to talk to each other, chat with each other. I look at the chat room as that space outside of the classroom where people talk to each other and say, oh, what are we talking about today when we get in there? We have anything to do and it's a very casual space and then when we come into the chat room it's a little bit more organized. But these kind of interactive commentaries that really make assignments that much more interesting. One of the things that's really interesting is using video and coming up with these little clips that I created at various places throughout British Columbia. This was so inspiring because it encourages just a much richer kind of connection. They see my face, they see my body language, they see the faces and body language of people that I call the places and faces of design in Canada. I think the future of the classroom is now turned into a kind of a circle of individuals that all have different points of view and different expertise and different interests. So it's multidisciplinary, it's interdisciplinary, it's cross-platform and it's also diverse in terms of the languages and the knowledge that so many of our students here and even more so when we're doing it online, open to the world, we share our cultural backgrounds and our linguistic backgrounds and it's really, really quite fascinating and there's no doubt that the future of education will go hand in hand with online and face to face. The high technology and the handmade and how all of these elements have to come together and do come together both online and in classroom.