About the Author
Established in 1906, AGBU is the world's largest non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the lives of some 500,000 Armenians around the world. For more information about AGBU and its worldwide programs, please visit www.agbu.org.
AGBU Armenian Virtual College (AVC) (www.avc-agbu.org) is an accredited online learning program that facilitates Armenian Studies through modern technologies.
AVC Multimedia e-Book Series and courses in Armenian language, history, and culture are offered in seven languages of instruction: Western and Eastern Armenian, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Launched in 2009, AVC classes are open to anyone who is interested in Armenian Studies, creating a virtual classroom for students who do not have access to traditional, face-to-face Armenian educational programs, while supplementing the curriculum of those who do. AVC’s mission is to also build a virtual learning community that fosters cultural education and social ties across the globe.
The launch of the e-Book series in 2014 marks AVC's expansion in a new and exciting direction. The e-Books present a wide variety of themes about Armenia: history, culture, tourism, and covers contemporary topics in economy, popular culture, and more.
AVC partners with educational institutions, community center and other organizations around the world who add exceptional value in strengthening and supporting AVC outreach and the programs’ impact.
To date, AVC has students from more than 75 countries around the world - from the United States to Russia and from South Africa to Venezuela. AVC e-Book readership has an even larger geography, resulting in more than 10,000 downloads per year.
This interactive travel e-guide, Exploring Yerevan, has been designed to help you have the most productive and enjoyable use of your time in Yerevan and its surroundings.
The AVC team has made every effort to make this multimedia e-book as enjoyable as possible for its readers. We invite you to convey the joy and pleasure of your experience to your friends by sharing this item with them.
We invite your feedback on this Exploring Yerevan. Your thoughts and comments will help us as we continue to develop this product to better serve our subscribers.
We welcome you to share your recommendations for the upcoming multimedia e-book topics and formats; in the meantime the AVC e-book team will further explore the Armenian treasures to present another fascinating topic to its readers.