In November 2000 Vlad Wielbut of ACT visited his native Poland. He traveled to three cities in Poland, where he gave guest lectures about current state of the art in distance education technology, illustrated with detailed descriptions of ongoing experiments in this arena at the University of Michigan: the "Globalization and the Information Society" seminar of Prof. Derrick Cogburn and the "Global Product Realization" course of Prof. Debasish Dutta. The audiences for these lectured included:

• in Plock: faculty and students of the Department of Informatics at the Pawel Wlodkowic College
• in Torun: faculty and students of the Humanities Department at the Nicolaus Copernicus University
• In Warsaw: Members of Parliament (Sejm), representatives from the Polish government and the British Council, CEOs of private companies with interest in educational technology, deans and department heads of institutions of higher learning in Warsaw.

Several participants expressed their desire to maintain contact and explore the possibility of collaboration between partners in Poland - whether from public or private sector - and ACT, School of Information, or U of M. A a follow-up  e-mail discussion will survey the areas of common interest as a first step to an eventual joint project.