Thomas Freidman (2005) asserts that technology has created a transnational platform for communication, collaboration, and competition that is stimulating global opportunity for all individuals. After years of robust study abroad programs and the recent "bricks and mortar" expansion of U.S. higher education overseas, we are now seeing the true "flattening" of the academy. Ubiquitous web-based videoconferencing, learning management systems, and social media websites are further breaking down the boundaries to international collaboration and empowering individual faculty, outside of institutional support, to create rich technology-facilitated multicultural learning environments. (Contains 14 notes.)