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Did you know that world languages are growing at exponential rates?

Learn more by contacting us at the CAPE office....

CAPE's Online World Language Institute (COWLI)

Using both online environments and classroom-based videoconferencing, CAPE has helped provide Japanese I, II, III, Chinese I and Arabic I courses to over 600 high school students over the past five years.  Russian I was added to the program in January 2008.  Some of these students are receiving 3 college credits from Seton Hill University for the course through an innovative partnership between Seton Hill and CAPE.  In Fall 2008 we will offer 4 levels of Japanese, Chinese, Russian & Arabic.  This program is continually expanding to add institutions and offer additional languages.  For more information, please contact the CAPE office at (610) 264-9472.

Course calendar and answers to common questions

We're celebrating 15 years of creating alliances to succeed!

We are growing and are expecting to have over 200 members during the 2008-2009 School Year

CAPE's Online Environments

CAPE now has two online collaborative softwares for members to use for free! CAPE Online Auditorium (Marratech) and CAPE's Elluminate. Learn more about these educational tools below.

                                     Marratech   -   Elluminate

"CAPE Learning Spaces"

Hosts Workshops and Leases Acreage to Members

Last Fall the CAPE Learning Spaces island opened its shores with a worksho to introduce a dozen postsecondary faculty to the intriguing new Second Life teaching and learning environment.  The faculty found the experience so promising that they doubled the acreage for their institution's exclusive use.  This Spring a second CAPE member began leasing exclusive space on our island.  Courses have begun to use CAPE Learning Spaces to conduct classes and learning activities.

These faculty are discovering firsthand why thousands of instructors at hundred of universities are using Second Life to explore a next-generation immersive distance learning environment.  Harvard Law, RIT, San Francisco State, UT Austin, Vassar and many more have begun to hold classes on virtual campuses in Second Life.

Call the CAPE office to learn more!

Message from CAPE's Executive Director,

CAPE has been committed to providing cutting edge services, particularly in the areas of distance learning, to K-12 schools, community colleges, colleges and universities at a very impactful price point for 15 years.  To our future members, we welcome the opprotunity to share how we can help  you move in to the 21st century.  To our member organizations, we appreciate your commitment in the past and look forward to growing with you in the future.

At Wilkes University, we see CAPE as our "skunk works" - an informal research and development operation to generate and test new ideas. The opportunities CAPE has provided to Wilkes to test new ideas, to try new software applications and to keep abreast of the latest developments in information technology have been invaluable and certainly something we could not duplicate for ourselves.

- Dr. Joseph Gilmour, President