Welcome to the Global Net Academy
Introduction
GNA is a non-profit corporation incorporated in the state of Texas,
affilated with the Usenet University project. Its long-term goal is to create an
fully accredited online university. GNA is also the world's first
virtual corporation, and therefore also serves as a testbed for
running organizations in the 21st century.
Catalog
A draft course catalog for spring
1994 is available.
Discussion
Discussion concerning the Global Net Academy occurs in the
newsgroup alt.uu.futureas well as on
several mailing lists.
Working Groups
- GNA Curriculum
- The GNA
curriculum working group is responsible for discussing GNA
curriculum issues. The mailing list for the GNA curriculum group is
gna-curriculum@moose.uvm.edu. Send a message with the body "HELP" to
listserv@moose.uvm.edu find out how to be added to the list.
- GNA Technical
- The GNA technical working group is responsible for discussion GNA
technical projects such as the distributed MOO. The mailing list for
the GNA technical group is gna-tech@maths.tcd.ie. Send email
to gna-tech-request@maths.tcd.ie to be added to the list.
Meeting times
- Board meetings
- The GNA board meets at 1800 GMT on the first Thursday of each month at
the GNA virtual campus
- Curriculum group
- The GNA curriculum group meets at 1800 GMT on the first and third Saturday of each month at the GNA virtual campus.
Projects
- About GNA
- The long term development plan of the Global Network Academy.
- Administration
- Legal documents concerning the world's first virtual corporation.
This link contains pointers to the Global Network Academy's Articles
of Incorporation and Corporate Bylaws.
- Consultants
- A keyword searchable index of people who are willing to answer
questions over e-mail.
- Meta-Library
- A keyword searchable index of information sources on the internet.
- The Collaborative Textbook Project
- A project to generate hypertext textbooks
- The Virtual Campus
- GNA's virtual reality campus.