Cyber University

Cyber University was founded in April 2007 as Japan's first full online university

Courses

Course 6: EECS

Location

Tokyo

Host Type

University

Cyber University provides a diverse student body with learning opportunities through communication media. Their objective is to develop competent people equipped with scholarly strength and broad ranging knowledge to be part of the workforce that forms the nation and society.

Student Story|Helen Ho, MEng, EECS, '19

Helen Ho, MEng, EECS, '19

"Through the internship, I think I learned a lot about the work and the fields that I am interested/not interested in. Because I really enjoyed this experience, I will also definitely look more into the opportunities abroad that MIT provides."

Helen along with other MIT students in Japan

My host was Cyber University, a relatively small (~50 employees) company located in Tokyo. Cyber University was really two different operations– one was a fully functional private online universities with students from all over Japan. Another half of the company was developing a learning management system and some other tools to facilitate the creating of learning material. The president is an MIT alum, and is working closely with current MIT professors on providing/testing this learning management system for MIT.

I was working with the Systems Team at Cyber University. More specifically, my project was to replace the Flash video recording tool with another plug-in free communications system, WebRTC, to prepare for the eventual discontinuation of Flash in leading browsers. Though there was no direct application of skills/material that I learned at MIT to the work that I was doing, some of the good practices I learned and previous experiences I had in classes at MIT (for example, 6.031 Software Construction) turned out to be very helpful.

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