\u201cThe project, \u2018Borderless Education: Intercultural Learning for Refugees\u2019, gives students at York University an opportunity to take a course, while migrant and refugee Burmese students who are half a world away in camps on the Thai-Burma border take the same course,\u201d says York geography Professor Robin Roth<\/a>, the course instructor.<\/p>\n It is part of a larger global effort initiated by the Australian Catholic University<\/a> (ACU) to bring higher education to young people living in precarious situations in\u00a0refugee camps in locations such as\u00a0Burma and Kenya. York University is the only Canadian postsecondary institution involved in the effort.<\/p>\n Delivering the lectures to students thousands of miles away has been made possible through the Internet and a technology\u00a0known as\u00a0Camtasia Relay<\/a>,\u00a0which is used to stream\u00a0Roth\u2019s lectures and makes them available to the students in the camps\u00a0for downloading through Moodle<\/a>, an open source course management system. Tutorial sessions involving interaction with the students in the camps are done\u00a0in real time using Internet video calling via\u00a0Skype.\u00a0The project relies heavily on the ingenuity and perseverance of a small and dedicated group of York faculty who provide a Western-style University level course to a cohort comprised of 39 young people in the camps, while also providing a rich intercultural experience for students at York University.<\/p>\n![\"Robin](\"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/files\/2012\/02\/roth-fp.jpg\")
<\/a>Robin Roth<\/strong><\/p>\n