Mayumi Hosoya, who is forty, teaches Japanese at a community college in New York. " Next term, I 'll be teaching some of my classes using the Internet. This is new for me, " says Mayumi. " At the moment, I am taking a course to learn how to teach this way. " At the same time, Mayumi ' s seventy 一year 一old mother and father are taking a distance learning course in Art History. "We love the subject, " says Manyumi’s father, " And now we can study with people from all over the world. 1 never thought learning could be this much fun!