SCOLA

View and listen to foreign broadcasts from 72 countries from your computer!

View Live Broadcasts
(High bandwidth required)

Access LRC Scola Archives
(News and documentaries saved weekly, several countries for many of the languages)

Insta-Class, Scola website
(Archives of news with transcription and translation, download capabilities, only one country per language, user name and password required)

"SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization transmitting international television programs for educational use via satellite and Internet 2. SCOLA digitally transmits three channels : Channel One: Authentic Programming (News, Weather and Cultural) highlighting regions of greater Eurasia. Channel Two: Programming from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Channel Three: (Chinese Teaching Channel) Featuring educational and cultural programming from the People's Republic of China. Channel four and five carry programs from the rest of the world. All programs are shown unedited and in the original language."

"SCOLA's mission is to help the people of the world learn about one another; their cultures, their languages, and their ideologies. SCOLA emphasizes the importance and effectiveness of modern information technology as a tool in overcoming barriers to global understanding and will remain at the forefront of its application."

SCOLA is available to the Rice community thanks to the Language Resource Center's yearly subscription.

www.scola.org