Telecommunications projects underway in Hawaii include various multimedia computer-based educational telecommunications (CBET) and multimode node telecommunications (MMN) projects. CBET uses a computer network to send messages rather than an ordinary telephone call, and MMN is a technique for transferring messages, data, and images between electronically incompatible systems. Both systems are used in an asynchronous manner, whereby sender and receiver need not exchange information at the same time, and in a synchronous manner which is both immediate and interactive. A CBET project in Hawaii is the Hawaii Global TELEclass project, which has involved Hawaiian students in foreign language exchanges with students from Japan, as well as in other foreign language exchanges in Hawaii. As TELEclass continues into its third year, exchanges involving other languages and other subject fields are under consideration. The TELEclass experience also provides information about the establishment of a telecommunications program that can be transferred to other similar programs. (EW)