Let me toss a few more ideas around. As a professor at a university, I'm going to approach the "powers that be" regarding what can be done about setting up such a course through them / it. Second, what we need do is start keeping a list of all who are interested, this not only for obvious reasons but to also form the basis of a group to get the parameters, syllabus, et al. put together. Next, we must look at ALL options for such a course, including: (1) through a university, as a previous member mentioned; (2) deciding if we want to use real time conversations (such as can be done through AOL's IMs and Yahoo's Messenger) or a course that would function strictly on e-mails (not my preference, certainly, as the interaction and spontaneity is nil); (3) What the course will entail; (4) the purpose of the course. There are many others I could list, but this will do for starters -- let's get some input and take this great idea beyond the realm of great e-mails! Errol