Integration of Web-based courseware and other specialized applications
for communication via Internet provides new technological opportunities
for education across international borders. This paper will describe
instructional activities and outcomes in organizing an educational
project between students in the U.S. and Croatia. In this project
students of library and information science from both countries
collaborated in five small groups via Internet to complete an
assigned research task. The research process required students
to use various means of synchronous and asynchronous communication
provided within the Web-based courseware Prometheus, such as email,
file exchange and chat. The research outcomes were presented in
the form of real-time student presentations at three locations
in the U.S. and Croatia, using MS NetMeeting. After providing
an overview of the project the paper will discuss the organizational
and technological challenges involved in organizing an international
educational activity on the Internet. In particular, the paper
will address issues such as cultural and pedagogical differences,
and logistical problems resulting from difference in time zones
and difference in technology access. The concluding part of the
paper will propose a number of strategic issues for organization
of international, educational activities on the Internet involving
students and faculty members from Croatia and participants from
other countries.