On their visit to the CORE office, the group of MIT students was warmly received by Prof. Huang, the original contact person for the program. They told Prof. Huang that they were here to introduce topics from "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," and "Artificial Intelligence" using iCampus online interactive courseware called “xTutor” at Tsinghua University's School of Information Science and that they had demonstrated xTutor to Tsinghua faculty who were interested in adopting online interactive modules for their own course work. They also set up a mirror server at Tsinghua University to facilitate Tsinghua student access to the iCampus sites.

Later on, the CORE staff and MIT students had dinner together. They had a happy and relaxed conversation covering topics from the differences between Chinese students and US students to how students use OCW in MIT. The fact that MIT OCW has become an essential part in MIT students’ studying and the fact that they can take most of their classes online significantly inspired the CORE staff.

This Tsinghua University xTutor team will also introduce similar topics at Xi'an Jiaotong University, where this year's CORE and OCW conference will be and the results of our 2005 team projects will be presented at this Xi’an conference.