The Institute for Telecommunications Studies has sought over many years to apply information and communication technologies to teaching and learning not just abroad but also on the Ohio University campus. Among these projects were the Ohio Multimedia Lab, the Electronic Classroom of the Future and Internationalization of the campus and the curriculum. Some of these are noted below:

• Beginning in 1993, ITS director Don Flournoy spent his sabbatical year chairing a campus-wide group of faculty and staff committed to making sure that Ohio University would not be by-passed in the age of digital media. With the support and authorization of the Provost, a new research, training and electronic publishing facility was established on campus called the OHIO MULTIMEDIA LAB. The idea for this Lab was developed and promoted in weekly meetings using an early version of e-mail called the All-in-One Listserv.

• In 1994, the OMML was assigned space in Alden Library and was granted $40,000 in ongoing UPAC funding. Don Flournoy assumed responsibility as OMML director. In March 1995, the OMML was designated a national New Media Center by Apple, IBM, Kodak, Sony and partners. This initiative failed in the transition to a new president and provost but served as the precursor to the two Scott Quad Labs: Scripps Multimedia Lab and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL).

• The OMML team gave the first multimedia presentations on the “Electronic Classroom of the Future” in 1994 to the Ohio University Trustees, the Trustees Academy, the Alumni Board and the campus at large. The ITS director was asked by University president Robert Glidden to help assemble a Capability Statement for Ohio University re information technology and multimedia, in response to a request from the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

• In 1995, the OMML and the ITS joined with the Consortium for the Advancement of Affordable and Accessible Distance Education, a group of universities centered on University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The Consortium wrote proposals to the U.S. Department of Commerce (TIIAP) and to the National Science Foundation to test and implement low-cost multimedia delivery systems connected to computer-equipped rural schools integrating satellite/Internet.

• In 1995, with help of the Ohio University Telecommunications Center, School of Communications Systems Management, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Computing Network Services and Nursing, the ITS initiated and hosted an internationally distributed two-way satellite videoconference from WOUB-TV Studio A demonstrating such innovative distance teaching technologies as MBone, Internet (CuSeeMe), Sharevision and PictureTel. The interactive linkages with Ohio Unversity included the University of Costa Rica and Texas A&M University.

• In cooperation with the Telecommunications Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, the Ohio University Institute for Telecommunications Studies managed a research and briefing service for the ITU global membership from 1996-1999.

  The Institute sponsored an electronic journal, appearing on the ITU site hyper-linked from the School web site, consisting of carefully-written presentations on emerging telecommunications technologies for media managers, planners and policy-makers. These briefing papers, on topics such as Cable Modems for High Speed Internet Access, Digital Audio Services via Satellite, Interactive Video and Data Services, Network Computers, VSAT Networks and Intranets, and Fiber Optics Basics, were written by undergraduate and graduate students of the School of Telecommunications.

  This project was initiated in 1995 when students enrolled in TCOM 769: International Telecommunications successfully carried out an online consultancy for the ITU researching the concept for a new Global Telecommunications University to be sponsored by the Development Bureau from Geneva. The ITU’s Virtual Training Center grew out of this initiative.

• “Telecommunications Technologies in Distance Learning,” was a chapter authored by ITS director Don Flournoy published in DISTANCE EDUCATION BOOK, Aytekin Isman, Murat Barkan and Ugur Demiray eds, Anadolu University Press, Eskesehir, Turkey, 1998.

• Don Flournoy participated in the writing of a long article entitled “Use of Satellites in Distance Education in Turkey and Japan,” with Ugur Demiray et. al. for ED JOURNAL, the official publication of the US Distance Learning Association, November 1997.

• ITS director Don Flournoy wrote "Distribution Systems," a chapter in Alan Richardson ed., CORPORATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL VIDEO, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., First Edition 1994, Second Edition, 1996.

• At a meeting of the Broadcast Education Association, held at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual meeting Las Vegas in March 1994, ITS director Don Flournoy was an invited member of a panel addressing “Internationalizing the Broadcast Curriculum.”

• In 1992 and 1993, Don Flournoy helped to write three successful project proposals to Internationalize the Ohio University Campus and Curriculum. The first two of these were 1804 grants focusing on the School of TCOM (“International Issues in Telecommunications” with Joe Slade and Felix Gagliano for $10,000) and (“Telecommunication Undergraduate Curriculum Review” with Joe Slade for $20,000).

• Don Flournoy was the principal grant writer (with the Center for International Studies and the Modern Languages Department) to internationalize Ohio University’s undergraduate courses. This 1993-1994 project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI at $93,000. Faculty across the campus were invited to write proposals to make modifications in their courses making use of these funds.