Technology has allowed some of the familiar aspect of the DLIELC classroom to stay. Here an instructor is projecting something onto the SMARTBoard which can be viewed by the students from their dorms. The current COVID-19 pandemic generated rapid growth and innovation at DLIELC, with the team being afforded the opportunity to test the implementation of open source and government technologies to continue their mission of language education, despite geographical separation for faculty and students. Until two weeks ago, all of DLIELC’s academic instruction was conducted in a classroom setting using printed books. Distance learning had never been part of the DLIELC framework, until now.