Universities, too, will have global classes, with students joining lectures, discussion groups, and research teams from a dozen or more universities at a time. This past year, my own university – Columbia University in New York City – teamed up with universities in Ecuador, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, France, Ethiopia, Malaysia, India, Canada, Singapore, and China in a “Global Classroom” that simultaneously connected hundreds of students on more than a dozen campuses in an exciting course on global sustainable development.
大学也能在全球范围内开课，十几个甚至更多的大学学生们同时参与听课、讨论和小组研究活动。过去的一年中，在我本人任教的纽约的哥伦比亚大学 里，一个激动人心的“全球课堂”把学生们同步连接到一起。几十所大学的数百名学生，有来自厄瓜多尔、尼日利亚、英国、法国、埃塞俄比亚、马来西亚、印度、加拿大、新加坡和中国，在课堂上，他们讨论了全球可持续性发展的课题。