ISEUC (pronounced "I see, You see") is a consortium of universities and colleges around the world who will provide Software Engineering (SE) courses (also called "subjects" in some countries) to students globally via distance learning, primarily using the asynchronous mode of the Internet. ISEUC members, currently numbering 35 from Australia, Canada, the UK., and the US.A., already have established programs and/or degrees in software engineering, as determined frnm an ACM/IEEE-CS funded survey [1,2, 3]. All 35 were visited personally by the author between October, 2000 and June, 2001, and have agreed to make one or more courses in SE available on-line, with face-to face mediators, with some beginning in September, 2001. ISEUC serves as a broker for its members to provide additional students for existing and future Web-enabled courses, and is not a degree-granting organization. ISEUC will have both faculty and professional advisory boards. The primary markets are corporations that employ professionals trying to develop reliable, robust, and useful software products in a timely and efficient fashion, but who do not currently have state-of-the-art knowledge or skills. This paper gives a short description of why ISEUC has come into existence, what it looks like, results of the 35 personal visits, and what would be involved to become a member. Current detailed information can be found at www. iseuc.org.
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